num_pages: 291
description: The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
language: English
title: The Sins of the Fathers
titlecomplete: The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
characters: Matthew Scudder
genres: New York, Thriller, Detective, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 10960
places: New York City, New York
series: Matthew Scudder
publisher: Avon Books