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  • Time to Murder and Create

  • By: Lawrence Block
  • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
  • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (117 ratings)

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Time to Murder and Create

By: Lawrence Block
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
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Summary

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. Blackmail's a dangerous business. What's worse, no one cares - except Matthew Scudder. The unofficial private eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job, after all, and Scudder's been paid to find a killer - by the victim…in advance.

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Really enjoyed this book!

I enjoyed this book, o thought the characters were believable, and the story was well written.
I also liked the narrators voice.

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Not a fair cop

Gritty, well written, well crafted no nonsense. Ex cop left to deal with the last wishes of a murdered friend in his own peculiar way. Very Harold Robbins'sy in style and content, but not as racy; representative of novels of the time.

The excellent narrator put style and tension into his characterizations. Well done. ENJOYABLE

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Tour de force storytelling

Between the author and the narrator this makes superb storytelling. Beautifully paced, superb evocation of place and exceptional characterisation.

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Could not finish

I had to stop listening near the beginning due to fairly graphic descriptions of child abuse. Be aware

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Not recommended

Story is so so, but the narration is interminable, that 'tough voice' should have died with Humphrey Bogart. Does anyone enjoyed it?

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Time to murder and create

Did not enjoy the story, but the narrator has a nice voice and I need something to listen to when I work. Wouldn't recommend this one

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