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The Gutter and the Grave
By Ed McBain.
Published by Hard Case
Crime.
First published 1958.
Complete and Unabridged.
ISBN-10: 0857683675
ISBN-13: 978-0857683670
Description:
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. 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...
