A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder 17) "Right up there with Mr Block&39;s bestA DROP OF THE HARD STUFF keeps us guessing"--To his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer When Scudder&39;s childhood friend Jack Ellery isto atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery&39;s Alcoholics Anonyed One of them may be a killer, but that&39;s not necessarily Scudder&39;s greatest danger Iht back to the bar stool In a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction