A Walk Among the Tombstones vs When the Sacred Ginmill Closes: Which Should You Read?

A Walk Among the Tombstones Lawrence Block · 1992 ★★★★☆ 4.0 318 pages · ≈ 5 h 53 m · Moderate

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).

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes Lawrence Block · 1986 ★★★★☆ 3.9 261 pages · ≈ 4 h 50 m · Moderate

In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing…