When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes is a Matthew Scudder
novel
, written by Lawrence Block
. Based on the short story "By the Dawn's Early Light", and published four years after Eight Million Ways to Die, this novel resurrected Block's interest in the character and led to his writing 10 more titles in the series. The book's title derives from the Dave Van Ronk
song Last Call
It deals with an alcoholic detective who quit his job because he had shot a little girl while working for the New York Police Department. He frequents many bars such as Ms. Kitty's. There are three crimes that Scudder solves in this novel. First, there is a robbery of a safe at the Morrisey's, who support the IRA. Second there is a robbery of the real books that shows Skip's and Kasabian's tax evasion records. Third, there was a guy that murdered his wife. In the end, Bobby was the one that helped two actors rob the Morriseys and Skip. Skip turns Bobby in to the Morriseys to get a $10,000 reward. They later find the three people dead. Scudder gets a phone call from a depressed girlfriend of the man that killed his wife. She later kills herself and Scudder makes the evidence frame the guy. He thinks that it serves justice.
Matthew Scudder
Matthew Scudder is a fictional private investigator, the most famous and enduring creation of American crime writer Lawrence Block.Scudder debuted in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop who had recently quit the NYPD and left his family after accidentally causing the death of a...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
, written by Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively...
. Based on the short story "By the Dawn's Early Light", and published four years after Eight Million Ways to Die, this novel resurrected Block's interest in the character and led to his writing 10 more titles in the series. The book's title derives from the Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....
song Last Call
Last Call (Dave Van Ronk song)
Last Call is a song by Dave Van Ronk, originally released on his album Songs For Ageing Children in 1973, and released in a different version on Going Back To Brooklyn in 1994, and is one of the few songs he has written....
It deals with an alcoholic detective who quit his job because he had shot a little girl while working for the New York Police Department. He frequents many bars such as Ms. Kitty's. There are three crimes that Scudder solves in this novel. First, there is a robbery of a safe at the Morrisey's, who support the IRA. Second there is a robbery of the real books that shows Skip's and Kasabian's tax evasion records. Third, there was a guy that murdered his wife. In the end, Bobby was the one that helped two actors rob the Morriseys and Skip. Skip turns Bobby in to the Morriseys to get a $10,000 reward. They later find the three people dead. Scudder gets a phone call from a depressed girlfriend of the man that killed his wife. She later kills herself and Scudder makes the evidence frame the guy. He thinks that it serves justice.