Review: What's Up With Mary Alice?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
Mary Alice Redfield was a bag lady, a shopping cart lady, a kook that hung out at the train station.  A kook who used to buy a stack of newspapers for a quarter a piece and then resell them at the same price.  Have her something to do, a chance to interact with other people.  Matthew Scudder is an ex-cop who spends his days drinking bourbon and coffee and solving the occasional mystery.  Mary Alice was brutally murdered and now Scudder, along with others who hardly knew the woman, was left a $1200 bequest.  He doesn't know why but figures he can accept it as payment for solving her murder.  A well written Matt Scudder short.  Worth your time to read.