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  • A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

  • Matthew Scudder, Book 9
  • By: Lawrence Block
  • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
  • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (63 ratings)
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By: Lawrence Block
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Summary

There is no accolade or major mystery award that has not already been bestowed upon Lawrence Block. His acclaimed crime novels are as intelligent, provocative, and emotionally complex as they are nerve-tighteningly intense. And perhaps the most respected of his myriad works are the Matthew Scudder books - masterworks of suspenseful invention featuring a remarkable protagonist rich in conscience and character, with all the flaws that his humanity entails. This is the detective novel as high art.

In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality or the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed PI has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard-drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths. Because this investigation is leading Scudder on a frightening grand tour of New York's sex-for-sale underworld - where an innocent young life is simply a commodity to be bought and perverted … and then destroyed.

©1991 Lawrence Block (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Well written, possibly a fraction dated, and I agree with another reviewer that with all his AA meetings it's impressive Scudder has time to do any detecting. This story is very dark and morally ambiguous.
Beautifully read by Joe Barrett.

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Coffee

A decent enough story as are most of them. I feel there could be a little less of Meetings and Coffee.

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Never disappoints

Mathew Skudder books are so much more than the storyline. You feel as though you are in New York. Always good narrators

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Brilliant installment

A dark and a somewhat hard read due to the content but engrossing and unputdownable. Recommended

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Matt Scudder at his peak.

An excellent reading of one of my favourite Scudder novels.
All of the wonderful cast of supporting characters are present and the narrater does a great job of delineating each and every one of them.

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