Robert Campbell, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor, R. Wright Campbell, Author Pocket Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70319-6
Best known for his humorous series featuring Chicago sewer inspector Jimmy Flannery (The Cat's Meow, etc.), Campbell here turns his considerable skills to the story of corrupt cop Ray Sharkey, a man whose entire life consists of doing the wrong...
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Robert Campbell, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor, R. Wright Campbell, Author Pocket Books $20 (278p) ISBN 978-0-671-70321-9
Campbell's fast-moving and well-written new Whistler novel, fourth in the series, reunites the crew at Gentry's on Hollywood and Vine and dredges up painful memories for Whistler's friend Isaac Canaan, the cop who is rumored never to sleep. Ten...
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Robert Campbell, Author, R. Wright Campbell, Author Poseidon Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64483-3
Campbell's In La-La Land We Trust received rave reviews and this maze-like sequel should, too. ""La-La Land' is a Los Angeles area that private-eye Whistler knows well, turf for male and female whores, drunks and druggies. When lovely Nell...
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Robert Campbell, Author, R. Wright Campbell, Author Pocket Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67585-1
The versatile inventor of the La-La Land and Jack Hatch series, Campbell here features his other hero, Jim Flannery of the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog. Living according to the Chicago Democratic principle, ``a favor for a favor,'' involves Jim in
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Robert Campbell, Author, R. Wright Campbell, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-89296-608-0
Time has seemingly stood still in Chicago's Twenty-seventh ward, where the political machine still hums and where Jimmy Flannery (seen before in Cat's Meow) lives with his wife and baby daughter. In this latest tale, the city's parking meters are up
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Robert Campbell, Author, R. Wright Campbell, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-609-7
Every cloud seems to have a silver lining in the tenth Jimmy Flannery mystery (following Sauce for the Goose). The rise of sewer inspector Flannery through Chicago's political ranks might be expected to stall with the death of his longtime mentor,...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author Pocket Books $19 (217p) ISBN 978-0-671-70327-1
In his eighth appearance (after The Gift Horse's Mouth ), Jimmy Flannery, Campbell's engaging Chicago political foot soldier and sewer worker, is flying high. He is about to become a father and he is elected committeeman of the 27th Ward. Finally...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-93020-2
When Jan Horvath is shot down at point-blank range in front of his house in one of Belgrade's best neighborhoods, it turns out that he had been an officer in the military counterintelligence organization, the KOS. Yugoslavia's public and state...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author Poseidon Press $18.45 (270p) ISBN 978-0-671-64484-0
Down-at-the-heels Hollywood private eye Whistler, seen before in In La-La Land We Trust , promises his old flame Faye, who's now running a shelter for teenage girls, that he'll find her 15-year-old son whom she hasn't seen in 11 years and who is...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-453-00583-8
Fans of fictional Chicago pol Jimmy Flannery, who might have been disappointed with Campbell's Hip-Deep in Alligators, rejoice: the precinct captain/sewer inspector is back in fine form. A flock of out-of-town models (the ""turkey herd'') have been...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author Poseidon Press $18.45 (270p) ISBN 978-0-671-66624-8
Armed with a salable blurb from Elmore Leonard, the publisher is touting this as Campbell's ( In La-La Land We Trust ) breakout novel, and that may be true. Written in a terse, cinematic Leonardian style, the book has all the right ingredients. In a
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R. Wright Campbell, Author Pocket Books $17.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-671-67586-8
In the seventh entry in Campbell's splendid series featuring Chicago sewer inspector Jimmy Flannery (the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog ), the part-time detective is moved by incipient parenthood to rea c h at last for the committeeman's job in the...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author, Robert Campbell, Author Mysterious Press $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-89296-665-3
It is hard to imagine a more perfect rendering of people and place than Campbell delivers in the voice of his unlikely hero, Chicago sewer inspector and Democratic committeeman Jimmy Flannery. In this 11th outing (after The Lion's Share, 1996),...
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R. Wright Campbell, Author, Robert Campbell, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-453-00615-6
The fifth Jimmy Flannery mystery ( The Junkyard Dog , Thinning the Turkey Herd , etc.) should delight old readers and win new ones. Narrator Jimmy, a sewer inspector and active believer in what's left of Chicago's Democratic machine, pays a...
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