When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

It was a good addition to the Matthew Scudder series. I accidentally deleted my review b/c I had 2 copies of this in my list.

Matt is at an after hours bad when it's robbed. The owners ask him to find the perps, offering a $10,000 reward.

This is a fine entry in the Matt Scudder series, but fans of conventional mystery novels may be somewhat disappointed, for it involves not one particular case, but three: the armed robbery of an after-hours joint, the extortion of a tavern for the return of its cooked books, and the murder of the wife of a patron of one of Matt's usual haunts. Scudder does eventually connect two cases and solve them, and he sort of solves the other case too, but there is a lot of conversation not germane to the detective work, and their connection and solution are almost beside the point.