Awards
1992 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
Characters
| Name | Scudder, Matthew |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Private investigator |
| Traits | Recovering alcoholic |
| Retired | |
| Divorced | |
| Father | |
| Name | TJ |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Hustler |
| Trait | Street-wise |
| Genre | Mystery --Detective, Private --Hard boiled Fiction |
| Topics | Sex industry Related crimes Heiresses Rape-murders Teenage prostitution Gangsters Sadomasochism Sex crimes |
| Setting | New York City |
| Series | ||
| Matthew Scudder mystery | ||
| 1 | The Sins of the fathers | |
| 2 | Time to murder and create | |
| 3 | In the midst of death | |
| 4 | A Stab in the dark | |
| 5 | Eight million ways to die | |
| Sometimes they bite (Short stories) | ||
| Like a lamb to slaughter (Short stories) | ||
| 6 | When the sacred ginmill closes | |
| 7 | Out on the cutting edge | |
| 8 | A Ticket to the boneyard | |
| 9 | A Dance at the slaughterhouse | |
| 10 | A Walk among the tombstones | |
| 11 | The Devil knows you're dead | |
| Some days you get the bear (Short stories) | ||
| 12 | A Long line of dead men | |
| 13 | Even the wicked | |
| 14 | Everybody dies | |
| 15 | Hope to die | |
| 16 | All the flowers are dying | |