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Fans of the hardboiled detective,
rejoice. Screenwriter-director Scott Frank and actor Liam Neeson, adapting the
splendid work of crime novelist Lawrence Block, have brought a great one to the
screen in high, bracing style. “A Walk Among The Tombstones” not only does
justice to one of Block’s most soulful creations, ex-cop and recovering alcoholic
turned very unlicensed private dick (“I do favors for people, and they give me
gifts,” is how he puts it) Matthew Scudder, it stages, single-handed, a bracing
revival of a kind of genre movie that many of us have been mourning. That is, a