| The Dutch: A Milan Jacovich Mystery Contributor(s): Roberts, Les (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598510126 ISBN-13: 9781598510126 Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: #12 in a series of 13 Cleveland-based mysteries by Les Roberts. First time in trade paperback. Entire series now back in print, in a uniform edition with new covers. In this book, a distraught father hires Milan Jacovich to investigate the apparent suicide of his daughter. What Milan uncovers isn't pretty--and involves a sinister web of lies and sordid behavior. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006000950 |
| Series: Milan Jacovich Mysteries (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.66" W x 7.8" (0.64 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Locality - Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #12 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series ... In street parlance, "the dutch" is another expression for suicide. That's what everyone assumes happened to Ellen Carnine when her broken body is found 150 feet below the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in downtown Cleveland. A terse, sad suicide note has been left on the screen of her home computer. But her grieving father asks private eye Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovitch) to figure out why a bright and successful, dot-com executive like Ellen took her own life. Milan is introduced to a different reality by Ellen's four best female friends, an old lover, her employers, and some of the lowlifes from Cleveland's meanest streets. The search for the truth leads Milan into the unfamiliar territory of Internet chat rooms, where he learns a great deal about the faceless people who live part of their lives behind a screen, becoming best friends--or bitter enemies--without actually meeting. Milan pushes too far--and uncovers the most brutal and heinous crime he's ever faced. |
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. |