A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 9)

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 Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #9. "A master.... Lawrence Block's estimable private eye Matthew Scudder is one of the most fully developed and credible characters working in the genre today" (Chicago Tribune).