num_pages: 304
description: Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger. — Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the P.I. is determined to avenge.
language: English
title: A Stab in the Dark
titlecomplete: A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)
characters: Matthew Scudder, Janice Corwin
genres: New York, Detective, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 4895
places: New York City, New York
series: Matthew Scudder
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover
publisher: Avon Books