Title: The Sins of the Fathers
Description: Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #1. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

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.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Scudder, matt (fictitious character), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Large type books, Murder, Investigation
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)