Private Investigator Paul Whelan scours Chicago's gritty Uptown neighborhood--home to immigrants, runaways, and dope-dealers--in search of a missing orphan, whose name has a mysterious power to silence possible witnesses and the police themselves.
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About the Author:
Michael Raleigh has taught at Truman College for the past fourteen years.
From Publishers Weekly:
After three stellar books (most recently, The Maxwell Street Blues), the grungy charms of shamus Paul Whelan and his domain, the equally unslick Uptown region of Chicago, are dulled by dragged-out pacing in this fourth effort. A prologue describes a murder near the lake, committed by a sinister man with a talent for disguise. The action then cuts to Whelan taking on the case of a missing teenage boy in the Vietnamese section of the city. It turns out that the missing kid was employed by the man killed in the prologue, as were several other criminal types, all also dead. As the hunt for the boy quickly segues into a hunt for the killer, Raleigh details Whelan's diet of dirt-cheap food, booze and coffee, his bad luck with babes and his dealings with pals and clients-who tend to come from the lower social strata. But the narrative wheels spin too long in nameless bars and diners before finding traction in the relationship between the current case and some figures from Whelan's past. Although not up to the high standard of previous titles, the vividness of Raleigh's Chicago and Chicagoans still raises this entry above average.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0312135327
- ISBN 13 9780312135324
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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