The Blind Pig opens as a cop kills an armed intruder and two hit men shoot a jukebox. It would seem an open-and-shut case, but the deceased turns out to have been a hit man for the mob, and Mul finds himself smack in the middle of a gun-running plot. Meanwhile, a "delicious kumquat" of a woman is...
Deadman is another virtuoso performance from a master crime novelist. This time, Mulheisen is headed out of town, hot on the trail of Helen Sedlacek, who skipped out with a truckload of stolen cash after chopping down mob boss Carmine Busoni with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shotgun. A man fitt...
The book opens with the disappearance of a man named Franko Bradovich in Kosovo. Franko, a native Montanan posing as a local, was a spy of sorts, an operative who was helping the Lucani (a loose affiliation of DEA, FBI, CIA, etc. agents operating outside the law) bust a drug trafficking scheme fr...
The parties realize that they’ve experienced an unanticipated intimacy with someone they don’t really know. It was surely more awkward for Oberavich. Two strangers had waltzed into his life and he had fallen into perhaps a too familiar easiness with them, unusual behavior for him. He couldn’t be ...
This is not coincidence, but it is not necessarily a conspiracy either. At the time, of course, I didn't remark it. Even before Grootka's narrative surfaced, somebody from the police department's Public Relations office called and asked me to entertain a young historian named Agge Allyson: actual...
Detective Inspector Laddy McClain said. He travestied a child's fluttering good-bye wave at the ambulance that was hauling away the remains of Big Sid Sedlacek and Mickey Egan. “And good-bye to you, Mul,” he added. Mulheisen didn't acknowledge that remark. He looked at his cigar, which had gotten...
Wunney 1 Wunney You always remember the guy who brings bad news. In this case it was a detective from the Detroit Police Department’s special operations. Mulheisen knew the guy, L. E. Wunney. They had worked together in Homicide. That was a long time ago now. Mulheisen had long since returned to ...