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Somebody is methodically knocking off all the top mobsters in Detroit. Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen has another tough case on his hands. All the clues lead to the same place: nowhere. Then Joe Service, Mulheisen's nemesis and successful "freelancer" turns up doing his own investigations.
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Back on the streets in top form is Detroit's soiled, yet sensitive Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen, whose last appearance was in the praised Grootka . Having rubbed out mobster Sid Sedlacek and his driver, hit man Hal Good is picked up as a possible witness and taken to jail while Mulheisen oversees the crime scene. A quick ID switch with a drunk in a nearby cell lands Hal back on the streets, in possession of a large chunk of money taken from Sid (who'd taken it from his boss, hence the contract), and pursued by both Mulheisen and another gun-for-hire. Meanwhile, Mulheisen meets up with a woman from his past and falls for her all over again, even though her husband has a few too many links with the latest profusion of homicides. With dialogue that's droll and dark, a series figure who's one short step from terminal burnout and a seamy urban setting illuminated by kinetic, violent, often brutally funny scenes, Jackson expertly taps the vein that Elmore Leonard, another Motown scribe, is noted for. Atlantic will be issuing mass market editions of The Diehard , The Blind Pig and Grootka in spring 1993.
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0862419360
- ISBN 13 9780862419363
- BindingPaperback
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Hit on the House (A Detecetive Sergeant Mulheisen mystery)
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Canongate Crime, London, 2000
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first novel of acclaimed crime writer Jackson to be published in the UK, a darkly comic tale in which mafia chieftain are being systematically bumped off. Some shelfwear and bump but otherwise crisp and clean. Very good condition. Seller Inventory # 001369
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Hit on the House
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 237 pages. Spine faded.Jon A. Jackson is one of crime fiction's masters, and now Grove Press brings back into print three mysteries featuring his popular hero Detective Sergeant Fang Mulheisen. In Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as an unqualifiably brilliant novel, Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to whack . Seller Inventory # 765k
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