A Body in Belmont Harbor - Hardcover

Raleigh, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312087071 ISBN 13: 9780312087074

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Private investigator Paul Whelan turns up links between a recently murdered drug dealer and a wealthy man who committed suicide years before, in a murder investigation that takes him into the bowels of Chicago.

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 Publishers Weekly:

Sleek plotting and an abundance of small diversions brighten Raleigh's second tour of Chicago's ethnically mixed Uptown area, which is guided by the tough-talking, loudly dressed shamus Paul Whelan. Two years separate the death of a struggling computer software specialist and the recent killing of a cheap bookie. But the latter was bookie to the businessman, the businessman's former partner has mysteriously moved on to bigger successes and the two men died at nearly the same location. The businessman's widow hires Whelan to investigate the partner, and soon the PI is trailing missing accountants and bald bruisers who cruise Rush Street's singles bars at night. While working in unofficial tandem with cop Al Bauman, whose attraction to violence is matched only by his thirst for booze, Whelan romances a pretty waitress and keeps a watchful eye out for a car of rednecks who seem intent on harassing the racially mixed couple who lives across the street. Raleigh, who delivered the goods in his debut novel, Death in Uptown , shows no signs of faltering.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312087071
• ISBN 13: 9780312087074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277