by Lawrence Block · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070493104
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«Une danse aux abattoirs» is the crime novel by Lawrence Block, published by Gallimard in paperback (351 pages, in French).
Private detective Matt Scudder watches over a producer who inherits a fortune when his wife dies during a robbery. A gesture seen at a boxing evening reminds him of a pornographic tape he received months earlier, featuring the real murder of a child. The investigation drags him through seedy bars of New York.
Ninth book in the Matthew Scudder series. Translated from English by Rosine Fitzgerald; original work: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse. Edgar Award for Best Novel and Shamus nomination in 1992.
Recommended for fans of mystery and suspense, particularly those who follow Matthew Scudder's investigations.
Lawrence Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Block has written in the genres of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century, releasing over 100 books.
