Full Cleveland: A Milan Jacovich Mystery

Roberts, Les

ISBN 10: 0312033494 / ISBN 13: 9780312033491

Published by A Thomas Dunn Book/St. Martin's Press, 1989

About this Item

First Printing. DATED by the author on 1989 in Orange on the half-title page. Small crease at the lower rear corner.

Seller Inventory # 017648

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Full Cleveland: A Milan Jacovich Mystery
• Publisher: A Thomas Dunn Book/St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312033494
• ISBN 13: 9780312033491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Private eye Milan Jacovich is saddled with a thuggish assistant who favors a tacky style of dress known as "Full Cleveland" and with a deceptively deep case involving nonexistent publishers and the Cleveland mob

Reviews

Cleveland sleuth Milan Jacovich (last met in Pepper Pike ) again has his hands full in this amusing, uncomplicated mystery. A "full Cleveland" is a polyester or seersucker suit, enhanced by a white patent-leather belt and matching shoes. The mob has been conned, buying hotel advertising in a nonexistent magazine. They insist that Buddy Bustamente tag along with Jacovich as he looks into the scam. Greg Shane, would-be publisher of North Coast Magazine , sold ad space to a number of pigeons and, as Jacovich checks the victims out (with Bustamente embarrassingly in tow, sporting mustard-hued polyester, white belt and shoes), he finds that while some were "honestly" plucked, others were blackmailed into paying far more for non-ads than they should have. Meanwhile, North Coast Magazine staffers are, one-by-one, being bumped off. Jacovich, a garrulous Spenser/Magnum PI hybrid, fillets a small, lonely herring with aplomb, and though Roberts's un-devious plotting and easy conversational tone make for zero surprises, he does provide agreeable, page-turning entertainment.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Second in the Milan Jacovich series ( Pepper Pike ), this effort sets the Yugoslavian security agent on the tracks of a con artist who happened to abscond with funds from a mob-backed hotel. Hired by the hotel manager, Milan is himself saddled with mob muscle, a stupid but rather sympathetic ex-con scared of police stations and churches. Still, he picks his way through shady suspects, not-so-hidden character flaws, and murder to reveal the culprit. Sturdy fare that balances human interest and dangerous pursuit.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.