The Edgar Awards Revisited: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Best Novel; 1992)
By Nick Kolakowski
September 27, 2019Lawrence Block published A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, the ninth book featuring his iconic detective Matthew Scudder, in 1991 (it won the Edgar in 1992). It takes place in an increasingly unfamiliar world to modern readers. Scudder, a recovering alcoholic and former cop, regularly stalks the “Duce,” as they used to call the pre-gentrified stretch…