A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel
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A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home — and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted...and destroyed.

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Lawrence Block. (2009). A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel. HarperCollins.

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        August 3, 1992
        Block masterfully builds the pressure in this Edgar Award winner, as newly sober Manhattan PI Matt Scudder investigates the death of a TV producer's wife.

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