The Gutter and the Grave
Mass Market Paperback – Unabridged, April 12, 2011
Titan · Paperback · April 12, 2011
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober.
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- Who it’s for
- A bruised detective and New York’s bartenders set the tone for a hard-edged crime read.
- Themes
- Betrayal, Urban homelessness, Violent crime
- Genres
- Hard-Boiled Mystery, Noir Fiction, Private Eye Fiction
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Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45. Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders.
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But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end...
City After Dark
A bruised detective and New York’s bartenders set the tone for a hard-edged crime read.
Come here for
- Streetwise mystery with a fallen detective at its center
- New York trouble, old ties, and bloody murder
Expect
- A straightforward, gritty detective story
- Beatings that may land on either side of the case
Where it sits
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 95% |
|---|---|
| Noir Fiction | 48% |
| Private Eye Fiction | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Crime Fiction
- Noir Fiction
- Authors
- Ed McBain
- Publisher
- Titan
- Published
- April 12, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Betrayal · Urban homelessness · Violent crime
- Reading lane
- Hard-Boiled Mystery