| Deep Shaker: A Milan Jacovich Mystery Contributor(s): Roberts, Les (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598510037 ISBN-13: 9781598510034 Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: A new novel featuring Cleveland P.I. Milan Jacovich from the crime writer who outsells Elmore Leonard in the midwest. Milan's investigation of local drug dealing at the high school leads him to a warehouse where he gets in far over his head. "As mouth-watering as anything Lawrence Sanders has come up with".-- Kirkus. Martin's. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005011147 |
| Series: Milan Jacovich Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.60 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Locality - Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #3 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series ... No one is as loyal to old friends as Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich). So when a grade school chum worries his son Paulie might be selling drugs, Milan has no choice but to help. Milan turn up Paulie's connection, a handsome Jamaican named Deshon who pals around with two baseball-bat wielding thugs and a German shepherd dog who looks like he's all business. The narcotics business makes curious bedfellows, as Milan discovers during his investigation of a particularly brutal murder; he butts heads with a wily realtor named Christmas, a flamboyant automobile dealer with lofty political ambitions, an edgy street pusher, and his old friends from the Little Italy mob, Don Giancarlo D'Allessandro and Victor Gaimari. Milan also encounters a drug gang unparalleled in their savagery, and unearths a relic from every Clevelander's childhood that proves to be deadly. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roberts, Les: - Les Roberts is the author of 16 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 11 other books of fiction. The past president of both the Private Eye Writers of America and the American Crime Writer's League, he came to mystery writing after a 24-year career in Hollywood. He was the first producer and head writer of the Hollywood Squares and wrote for The Andy Griffith Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., among others. He has been a professional actor, a singer, a jazz musician, a teacher, and a film critic. In 2003 he received the Sherwood Anderson Literary Award. A native of Chicago, he now lives in Northeast Ohio. |