In a Pig's Eye - Hardcover

Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671703277 ISBN 13: 9780671703271

Publisher: Atria, 1991

Synopsis

Even after his promotion to Committeeman for the twenty-seventh ward, Chicago's favorite investigator, Jimmy Flannery, returns to the street to solve the suspicious death of his friend from aerobics class, Mr. P. Pig

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In his eighth appearance (after The Gift Horse's Mouth ), Jimmy Flannery, Campbell's engaging Chicago political foot soldier and sewer worker, is flying high. He is about to become a father and he is elected committeeman of the 27th Ward. Finally getting some respect, he's glad to use his connections to help his neighbors, but then he comes up against something his new influence can't fix. While Flannery is exercising at a local health club, a man drops dead of an apparent heart attack. When the corpse turns out to have no identification--he's registered at the club as P. Pig--Flannery starts to nose around. At first the cops encourage him, but then all his sources dry up: nobody knows anything about anything. His interest piqued, Flannery's investigation leads him to a seedy porn publisher, a seedier topless club and old acquaintance Vito Vellitri, leader of the 25th Ward, who warns him off. On another front, Flannery is disturbed because obtuse Catholic reporter Billy Behan is interfering with Flannery's wife's counseling service for unwed pregnant teenagers. As told by his clear-eyed, clearheaded hero, Campbell's tales of ward-level political life in the Windy City grow better and better.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Another entertaining--if somewhat less colorful--outing for Chicago's favorite son Jimmy Flannery, now the Democratic Party committeeman for the 27th Ward (a big promotion) and an expectant father. The mystery this time doesn't involve an actual animal: the ``pig'' of the title is a nameless, overweight fellow who drops dead--a few feet away from Jimmy--at an exercise class. A heart attack...or poison? And what's the dead man's real identity? Jimmy follows a few clues--including Italian coins and a porno magazine- -to a moderately satisfying solution...while he and pregnant wife Mary (a nurse) use their clout to help out local teenage girls with pregnancy/abortion problems. As always, narrator Jimmy is a little too good (and too Runyonesque) to be true. But fans of the series will get the usual reliable serving of charm, politics, and Chicago atmosphere: light as air--and a lot less polluted. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671703277
• ISBN 13: 9780671703271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224