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Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder books have received the hearts of viewers throughout the world - plus a bevy of honours like the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and it's all here, from a set of overdue-'70s novelettes ("Out the Screen" and "A Candle for the Handbag Lady") through "By Dawn's Early Light" (Edgar) and "The Merciful Angel of Fatality" (Shamus), all the way to "One Last Night at Grogan's", a moving and elegiac tale never before posted. A few of these stories made an appearance in such mags as Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen, and Playboy. The name vignette, "THE NIGHT TIME and the Music", was written for a NYC jazz festival program; another, "Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen", has made an appearance only as the text of the limited-edition broadside. Several reports look back again from enough time with their writing, with Scudder recounting situations from his ex - life as a cop, first as a patrolman partnered with the renowned Vince Mahaffey, then as an NYPD detective leading a double life. Along with these eleven reports and novelettes, The Nighttime and The Music carries a set of the seventeen books in chronological order, and an author's notice detailing the origin and bibliographical information on each of the stories. Brian Koppelman, the prominent screenwriter and director (Solitary Man, Ocean's Thirteen, Rounders) and a major Matt Scudder admirer, has sweetened the pot with an introduction.
