Death in Uptown - Hardcover

Raleigh, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312058497 ISBN 13: 9780312058494

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Hours after he agrees to help his best people of Uptown in Chicago, private eye Paul Whelan finds out that Artie has been murdered in a Windy City alley, and he must find out who wanted to silence the would-be author

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Raleigh is the author of five Paul Whelan mysteries. He has received four Illinois Arts Council grants for fiction, and his stories and poetry have appeared in a number of literary magazines. His fifth book, The Riverview Murders, won the Eugene Izzi award. He lives in Chicago with his wife, three children, and a deranged cat.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Murder and other, slower, forms of death and decay on Chicago's skid row, as marginal p.i. Paul Whelan prowls among the winos and street preachers looking for the man who killed his even more marginal friend Artie Shears, who'd been interviewing derelicts for a book he hoped would turn his life around. When Whelan lands another client- -small-town ing‚nue Jean Agee, searching for her wayward kid brother Jerry--it's clear that the cases are connected, but how? Does Jerry know the mysterious Sharkey (a street person with a bodyguard, no less) whom Artie was excited about talking to, or is he another victim, or the killer himself? Whelan's persistent intimations of mortality amid the mounting body count (eventually including both the bodyguard and Sharkey) hint that things won't go well for him, and they don't; but the novel's depressive charge is offset by rare qualities of perception and pity. Newcomer Raleigh seems to have gotten so deeply inside his hero and his seamy world that there may be nothing left for a sequel. But it would be great to be wrong about that. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312058497
• ISBN 13: 9780312058494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247