A Walk Among the Tombstones vs Dope: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Drug traffic, Mystery, Fiction
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Dope
“MONTE IRVIN, alderman of the city and prospective Lord Mayor of London, paced restlessly from end to end of the well-appointed library of his house in Prince's Gate.”
Monte Irvin, alderman of the city and prospective Lord Mayor of London, paced restlessly from end to end of the well-appointed library of his house in Prince's Gate. Between his teeth he gripped the stump of a burnt-out…
The verdict
- Readers rate A Walk Among the Tombstones highest: A Walk Among the Tombstones 4.0 · Dope 3.7.
- Dope has the widest readership — 2246 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Dope | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.7 (2246) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (19) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (248) | — |
Reception
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Dope | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 248 | 2246 |
| Editions | 21 | 42 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 38 | 161 |
| Pages | 318 | 265 |