Robert Campbell, Author Signet Book $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16431-5
``The fifth Jimmy Flannery mystery should delight old readers and win new ones,'' said PW. This time out, sewer inspector Jimmy tracks rumors of a black Mass held at St. Pat's and becomes embroiled in Church and city politics, with the ever-present...
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Robert Campbell, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67454-0
An L.A. detective goes out on an illegal limb to help an old flame's feckless husband who is in trouble with a loan shark. ``The gritty milieu and lowdown characters are almost all believably sleazy,'' stated PW. (Jan.)
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Robert Campbell, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73236-3
In this latest ``La-La Land'' mystery, private eye Whistler rekindles a romance with an old sweetheart and searches for her missing son just as her former husband, convicted of murder, is paroled. ``Although coincidence is often stretched and the...
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Robert Campbell, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $4.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-671-70328-8
Jimmy Flannery, Campbell's engaging Chicago political foot soldier and sewer worker, is about to become a father and has just been elected committeeman when a suspicious death leads him into another investigation. (Dec.)
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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, 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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