Another meeting with Lawrence Block and his hero. In the novel “Dance at the Slaughterhouse” (1991), private detective Matt Scudder accidentally gets into the hands of a video cassette, where over an action movie there is a sadistic porn film recorded by someone about the torture, rape and, ultimately, the murder of an unknown boy. Like any normal person, endowed with a keen sense of justice and love for one's neighbor, Mat Scudder cannot ignore such an act of atrocity. And he begins an investigation... In 1992, the novel “Dance at the Slaughterhouse” was awarded the highest award of the Union of American Crime Writers - the Edgar Award.