The Dance of the Slaughterhouse: The Matthew Scudder Series

Author: (American) Block, translated by Zeng Xiaoguang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: To investigate a case, Matthew goes to a boxing match and notices a man with a child in the audience. The man's casual gesture of stroking the boy's hair suddenly triggers Matthew's memory: he had seen on a video tape the entire process of a man and a woman cruelly sexually abusing a boy. As Matthew's investigation progresses, the two cases unexpectedly intersect. This is one of the powerful new releases from Xinxing Publishing's "Midnight Library" series, which selects 150 of the most pure, classic, and intellectually stimulating works in the history of detective fiction, making reading an entertainment, an adventure, and a mental training. Readers who enjoy detective novels can also join Xinxing Publishing's "Midnight Club" to participate in various reading events. Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the "melancholy soul wandering in New York," and many elites are captivated by his work. Hou Xiaoxian recommended his books to Tony Leung, who hoped to play a role in his stories. Zhu Tianxin said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction, as well as an unyielding boundary-crosser." For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, the gentlemanly thief Bernie Rhodenbar, the sleepless spy Ivan Tattaglia, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing New York's ultimate prosperity and depravity. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first page, it doesn't affect his work. Some say Block's skill lies in first seeing horror in the bloodshed, then transforming it into suspense, and finally seeking understanding within the suspense—to understand why killers kill and why victims die.