num_pages: 320
description: The police can't prove that socialite Richard Thurman arranged the rape, torture and murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. The dead woman's brother thinks Matthew Scudder can.During his ongoing battle with the bottle, ex-cop, ex-boozer Scudder left a little bit of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case will drag him deeper into the mire than he's ever been before - launching him on a lethal tour of New York's 'snuff' film, sex-for-sale underworld... where an innocent young life is a commodity to be bought, perverted and ultimately destroyed.
language: English
title: A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
titlecomplete: A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder, #9)
genres: Fiction, The United States Of America, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, New York, Crime
ratings_count: 4515
series: Matthew Scudder
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Orion