Jon A. Jackson, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (330p) ISBN 978-0-87113-851-4
Detective Sergeant Mulheisen, titular hero of Jackson's freewheeling Mulheisen series (Man with an Axe, etc.), is all but absent from this ninth installment. Occupying center stage are his nemeses, freelance pistoleros Joe Service and Helen...
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Jon A. Jackson, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (355p) ISBN 978-0-87113-920-7
The 10th installment in Jackson's series to feature Detective Sergeant Mulheisen (after 2002's Badger Games
) delivers sturdy entertainment, though the post-9/11 plot hinges on the sometimes confusing interactions among Mulheisen, criminal...
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Dennis McMillan Publications $30 (350p) ISBN 978-0-939767-31-1
The author of the excellent, unfettered Fang Mulheisen stories (Man With an Axe, 1998) shifts direction in both subject and style with this historical novel. Union activist Frank Little is murdered in the copper mining town of Butte, Mont., in 1917.
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Countryman Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88150-179-7
Detective Sergeant ``Fang'' Mulheisen, introduced in The Diehard , here investigates three linked murders in a Detroit precinct where men are men and women are helpless ``babes,'' rated according to physical attributes. Grootka, a tough, retired cop
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $20 (237p) ISBN 978-0-87113-495-0
Back on the streets in top form is Detroit's soiled, yet sensitive Sgt. ``Fang'' Mulheisen, whose last appearance was in the praised Grootka . Having rubbed out mobster Sid Sedlacek and his driver, hit man Hal Good is picked up as a possible witness
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $20 (263p) ISBN 978-0-87113-562-9
In his last appearance, in Hit on the House , Detroit cop Fang Mulheisen chased the killer of a mob hoodlum. He lost the chase and the trail went cold. Oh well. Jackson, who delights in sending his readers down these supposed cul-de-sacs, employs...
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $22 (264p) ISBN 978-0-87113-638-1
The trajectory of marginal Detroit mobman Joe Service continues to leave a mess in its aftermath, the clearing up of which seems to be the eternal lot of Detroit copper Fang Mulheisen, now in his sixth appearance. In Deadman (1994), Joe was left in...
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87113-708-1
Two dead legends--real-life Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa and Jackson's fictional Grootka, the take-no-prisoners mentor of Detroit homicide detective Sgt. Fang Mulheisen--grab center stage in the seventh book in Jackson's lively, quirky series (after...
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Jon A. Jackson, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (284p) ISBN 978-0-87113-810-1
Jackson continues to crank out one of the wildest and wittiest crime series going. This time out his hero, Detroit cop ""Fang"" Mulheisen, doesn't get a whole bunch to do till the last 50 pages. Before that we follow the Machiavellian moves of...
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