Lawrence Block's seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and here's one example!
A twenty-five-year-old cold case of art theft and murder is reexamined when Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, encounter the main suspect in Florence, Italy. Throughout the trip, Scudder comes to realize the killer's motive and takes the steps towards proving the suspect's guilt.
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“I began
writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s…Over the years Scudder has also
been featured in eleven short works of fiction.” Looking for David” is the
seventh of these; it first appeared in 1997 in Whydunit, a collection of stories by members of the Crime Writers
of Canada, and ran the following year in EQMM.
The story grew out of a couple of threads—my recollection of the role the
statue of David played in my hometown of Buffalo and a woman’s observation on
the metamorphosis of her husband from Greek god to Roman emperor. Ah, well.
These things happen…”
—
Lawrence Block