Death in Uptown: A Paul Whelan Mystery (Paul Whelan Mysteries, 1) - Softcover

Raleigh, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626817634 ISBN 13: 9781626817630

Publisher: Diversion Books, 2015

Synopsis

"This series is a small treasure." ―BOOKLIST

A killer terrorizes Chicago's diverse Uptown neighborhood. Private investigator Paul Whelan's specialty is tracking down missing persons, but when his good friend is found slain in an alley, Whelan is steered down a path of violence as he searches for answers.

His investigation is interrupted by the arrival of an attractive young woman, Jean Agee, who is on her own search for her missing brother. But as clues lead Whelan to believe the two cases may be connected, the body count rises quickly, and he finds himself racing to catch a killer before he strikes again.

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: Diversion Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1626817634
• ISBN 13: 9781626817630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286