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The Chicago Way (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Book

Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007: Michael Harvey?s gritty debut, The Chicago Way, rips the classic crime novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett from their 30s origins and slams them like a brass fist into the teeth of modern-day Chicago. All of the pieces are here: Chandler?s Byzantine plots and tack-sharp dialogue; a smorgasbord of knuckle sandwiches to sate the die-hard Hammett fan; and a damaged dame (platinum blonde, natch), straight out of a James Cain roadside diner. Seemingly destined for noir greatness, The Chicago Way both respects its gnarled roots and catapults hardboiled crime fiction into a new century. --Jon Foro P.I. Michael Kelly's Chicago So where does a detective go to quench his thirst in the Windy City? The author offers Kelly's top five places to get a pint. 1. The Hidden Shamrock, 2723 North Halsted Street Best pint of Guinness in the city. Besides, Kelly knows the owners. 2. Celtic Crossings, 751 North Clark Street A print of James Joyce?s death mask hangs in a frame behind the bar. Around closing, it?s the liveliest-looking thing in the place. 3. Billy Goat Tavern, 430 North Michigan Avenue, Lower Level A Chicago legend. And a good place to eavesdrop on the ink-stained wretches that make a living out of other people?s misfortune, also known as newspaper reporters. (Learn more about the Billy Goat when Kelly drops in for a drink in his second novel, due out in 2008.) 4. Hopleaf Bar, 5148 North Clark Street Beer in three hundred different flavors. Need we say more? 5. Coq D?Or inside the Drake Hotel, 140 East Walton Place Old school Chicago. Order an Executive Martini, made with eight ice cubes and poured from a brandy snifter. Then find yourself a cab home. Read More

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  • Product Description

    Private detective Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner to solve an eight-year old rape and battery case long gone cold. But when the partner turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, a forensic DNA expert; and an old ally from the DA's office. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.

  • 0307386287
  • 9780307386281
  • Michael Harvey
  • 1 July 2008
  • Potter Style
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 303
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