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Táto séria sleduje cynického, no spravodlivého súkromného detektíva, ktorý sa vyrovnáva so svojou minulosťou v drsných uliciach New Yorku. Každý prípad ho zavedie hlbšie do sveta zločinu a morálnej šedej zóny. Sledujeme jeho cestu za spravodlivosťou, často na hranici zákona, a jeho vnútorný boj s démonom alkoholizmu. Ide o atmosférické a napínavé detektívne príbehy s výrazným psychologickým presahom.

Out On The Cutting Edge
The Matt Scudder Mysteries
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Nach der Sperrstunde (Matthew Scudder, Band 6)
Jízdenka na krchov ; I lidé zlí
Hope to Die

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    The Devil Knows You're Dead. A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel

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    A Long Line of Dead Men

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    Everybody Dies

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    Hope to Die

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