Joey's Case - Hardcover

Constantine, K. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892963476 ISBN 13: 9780892963478

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1988

Synopsis

Police Chief Mario Balzic has got one hot Italian on his heels. Albert Castelucci wants to straighten some things out about his son's murder. It seems that the investigator Balzic appointed to Castelucci's case made such a mess no jury could convict the killer. Pushing Balzic into losing his temper may just provide the answers Castelucci needs.

About this title

About the Author:

The pseudonymous K. C. Constantine has written sixteen previous novels set in Rocksburg, Pennsylvania. They include Grievance, Blood Mud, Brushback, Famiily Values, Good Sons, Cranks and Shadows, Bottom Liner Blues, and Joey's Case, which was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

Like the characters in The Man Who Loved Slow Tomatoes and other of Constantine's novels, the citizens of Rocksburg, Pa., are recognizable human beings in his new story. And his gritty dialogue fairly zips off the page. Tough old ex-miner Albert Castelucci nags the town police chief, Mario Balzic, into checking on the killing of his son Joey. The grieving father believes the state police, in charge of the case, have bungled badly. When Balzic agrees to investigate unofficially, he hears that Francis Collins, the lover of Joey's estranged wife Rose, had fired the fatal shot to save his own life. Rosa's relatives, tenants in her building, support the claim that Joey was beating Collins before the gun went off. Balzic's suspicions of a murder conspiracy grow stronger but he can find no evidence, and, during Collins's trial, he bitterly contemplates the wide gap between justice and the law. Disclosures after the verdict is reached provide the climactic, stunning moment in the complex mystery.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0892963476
• ISBN 13: 9780892963478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224