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Poe Street Paperback – March 1, 2023
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It is the summer of 1946, the sinister, Gatsby-like millionaire Cary Morrison is found dead in his Chicago mansion, apparently the victim of a burglary gone hopelessly wrong. Soon after, the burglars themselves are found dead, one by one. Ray Foley, just returned from wartime service in Europe, finds himself embroiled. One of the dead burglars was Ray's boyhood friend Eddy Walsh, and Ray decides to involve himself in the search for the killer. At the heart of the mystery is a missing statue, a hollow Greek statuette said to contain Morrison's records of all his illegal financial transactions with mobsters and public officials. Ray's investigation attracts the wrong kind of attention, as a number of interested-and dangerous-people assume he has the statue or knows of its whereabouts.
Ray's search brings him in contact with street toughs, bookies, gangsters, a slick private investigator named Max Silver, a tough young nurse named Hannah Marcel, a crusty street cop named Carmody, and the eccentric Sal Greene, a major figure in the local mob, and the killer, in the hot Chicago summer.
- Print length284 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLevel Best Books
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2023
- Dimensions6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10168512299X
- ISBN-13978-1685122997
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THE RIVERVIEW MURDERS
"An old-fashioned knight at the hard-boiled round table, Whelan honors the dignity of the poor, respects the social integrity of the neighborhoods and goes nuts for ethnic food."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
IN THE CASTLE OF THE FLYNNS
"One of the warmest and funniest novels I've ever read."-Irish News
THE BLUE MOON CIRCUS
"Hilarious and tragic and very, very American - it's as if both Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer had run off to join the circus. "-Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times.
KILLER ON ARGYLE STREET
"Like his hero, Mr. Raleigh has a thing for losers, characterizing them with compassionate care that spills over into affectionate studies of bartenders, waitresses and the owners of a slew of delis, bodegas, and restaurants on Whelan's ethnically mixed turf."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
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- Publisher : Level Best Books (March 1, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 284 pages
- ISBN-10 : 168512299X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1685122997
- Item Weight : 14.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,795,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #19,602 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Books)
- #25,902 in Historical Mystery
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About the author
Michael Raleigh was born in Chicago and attended De Paul University and Michigan State University. He is the author most recently of Poe Street (Level Best Books 2023), Murder in the Summer of Love (Coffeetown Press 2021) as well as Peerless Detective (Diversion Books 2015), the The Conjurer's Boy, (Harvard Square Editions 2013) and seven previous books: the coming-of-age novel In the Castle of the Flynns (Sourcebooks 2002), the comic adventure The Blue Moon Circus (Sourcebooks 2003) and five mysteries: Death in Uptown (St. Martin's 1991), A Body in Belmont Harbor (St. Martin's 1993), The Maxwell Street Blues (St. Martin's 1994), A Killer on Argyle Street (St. Martin's 1995), and The Riverview Murders (St. Martin's 1997). In the Castle of the Flynns was reissued by Sourcebooks in 2012.
In February of 2015, Diversion Books reissued the five Paul Whelan mystery novels listed above.
He taught at Truman College in the City Colleges of Chicago system for 28 years and currently teaches in the First-Year Writing Program and the Honors Program at De Paul University, his alma mater.
Before turning to the writing of novels, Michael published short stories and poems in a number of literary magazines. Along the way he worked as a bank teller, library clerk, grant specialist, fundraiser, punch-press operator, and bartender -- the last two of which, he believes, provide him with marketable skills in the event his writing career stalls out.
He spends a great deal of time in Wisconsin, raising heirloom tomatoes and staring off into space. At home, he collects things, reads, and follows the De Paul Blue Demons and the Chicago White Sox.
He lives in Chicago with his wife Katherine and whichever of his three children happen to be passing through at any given time.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023Great detective mystery, had me guessing to the end. Wonderful atmosphere of post war Chicago.
The author does a great job describing both the war they survived and the Chicago they came back to.
Looking forward to the next Ray Foley detective novel
I especially recommend it to people who love Chicago.