A review by paulataua
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel by Lawrence Block

4.0

 

 

The Matthew Scudder series continues and seems to get  more and more polished. The oft repeated  format  of  two apparently  distinct crimes that  become linked, the same collection of likeable characters, and the same Scudder (though  with  less on his fight against  alcoholism in this one) .  All  we know is that  Scudder will actually  solve the crime and that  we should expect  an  unconventional ending.  I’ll  be sad to see the end of this series.