Bloody Ten - Hardcover

Love, William F.

3.78

49 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556112750 ISBN 13: 9781556112751

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1992

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Auxiliary Bishop Francis X. Regan and Davey Goldman, a Jewish cop-turned-private eye, team up to solve the murder of a mob-connected theater promoter, who, in deep with loan sharks, had been trying to muscle his way into his father's fortune

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From Publishers Weekly:

Last seen in The Fundamentals of Murder, the appealing investigative team of brainy, paraplegic Bishop Francis X. Regan and his wisecracking Jewish assistant, PI Davey Goldman, takes on murder and the mob in midsummer Manhattan. After attending a party with the cast of an off-off-Broadway musical, Davey agrees to help one of the actors, Jim Kearney. Jim needs information on the possibly shady background of his long-lost half-brother, Nick, who is the offspring of their father's previously secret first marriage. Nick has recently surfaced and asked Jim for a large loan to cover his debts to the mob. The next day Nick is discovered shot to death with Jim's gun. Tracing leads, Davey moves from Greenwich Village haunts to the mansions of St. Cloud, Minn., where Jim and Nick's father, head of a pharmaceutical conglomerate, lives. Love deals out a list of suspects that strains even the bishop's 220 IQ. A well-developed cast, tightly structured plot and cleverly placed details end with the bishop's final questions in an 11th-hour, nail-biting conclusion.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

The third case for brainy, wheelchair-bound Bishop Francis X. Regan and his Archie Goodwinish factotum/narrator Davey Goldman (The Chartreuse Clue, The Fundamentals of Murder). Here, Davey's new acquaintance Jim Kearney is put on the hot seat for killing small-time promoter Nick Carney, who's just had time to announce that he's Jim's unacknowledged half-brother and squeezed their hard-nosed Minnesota father Mike for a fat payoff to cover the years of cheating on child support--before getting shot dead with a gun registered to Mike and Jim. After mandating two trips to St. Cloud to figure out which of the drywallers, painters, and plumbers who are renovating the Kearney house pinched the gun, the Bish will finger an obvious killer--but not before Davey's usual entertaining run-ins with New York's finest and the unfolding of an ingenious, implausible, winningly old-fashioned mystery. Though they still haven't escaped Nero Wolfe's portly shadow, Love's homages have now gotten to be quite a treat in their own right. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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