Jack Matthews

• Feb-1973
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• Jun-1983
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• Jul-2011
• / Historical
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"Jack Matthews’ first novel, Hanger Stout, Awake!, was published in 1967, and his latest, The Gambler’s Nephew, is already the 23rd in his half-century career. Thankfully it’s never too late to discover a writer this pleasant to read." -- Cl...

• Mar-2012
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Clyde Stout is a high school graduate in a small Ohio town; he loves tinkering with cars and dreaming about his girlfriend. He has interests and aspirations, but no definite goals. He is coasting….until he discovers he has a new talent: the ability...

• Oct-2012
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A year before he died, Jack Matthews (author of 10 story collections and over 30 books) was asked to suggest his 3 favorite stories from all his books for this story sampler. "Amos Smith, the Gunsmith" reaches into the folk tale tradition to produc...

• Apr-2016
• / General Fiction
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Over the decades, Jack Matthews collected memoirs and personal correspondence by actual U.S. Civil War soldiers. Eventually this interest led him to write a group of stories from the vantage point of teenage soldiers. The stories are less about speci...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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Town marshal Matt Walker becomes increasingly worried when his young nephew Joey Crane disappears on his way to visit his uncle. All clues point in the direction of Prospect Falls, a town owned and controlled by wealthy rancher H.J. Copeland of the B...

• Oct-2017
• / Literary
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"Matthews stories are like friends from small towns: They are honest, warm, occasionally lyrical and as strange and idiosyncratic as the rest of us."Arthur Sabatini During the last decade of his life, author Jack Matthews wrote a series of 1-2 page ...

• Nov-2021
• / Literary
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Did Edgar Allen Poe fake his death? That's what a Baltimore doctor needs to figure out in the title tale for this 11th story collection by Jack Matthews. As one critic wrote, Matthews stories are like friends from small towns: They are honest, warm, ...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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North of Taos, New Mexico, an unidentified murder victim wearing a belt with a turquoise buckle of rare dendrite quality is discovered on the edge of the Tulona Reservation. Tribal policeman Richard Tafoya takes charge of the investigation to determi...

• Apr-2022
• / Mystery
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Mattapoisett was a quiet New England town on Buzzards Bay - until body parts started showing up in the most unlikely places. Manny Pereira, a decorated and disabled Vietnam War Veteran, races to find the killer in an investigation that spans from Naz...

• Dec-2023
• / Literary
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Stories about messy emotions, troubled families and damaged personalities. This 11th story collection contains 24 stories by Jack Matthews (1925-2013) making it the author's largest. Matthews picked BOXES OF TIME as the title for this collection beca...