Synopsis
While searching her father's drugstore for clues to his disappearance, medical student Becky Westerfield encounters tough Chicago private detective Nick Acropolis, who is at the pharmacy to investigate an automobile accident, and when they join forces to find Becky's father, they stumble into a massive welfare fraud scheme. 10,000 first printing.
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Jack Clark has worked as a newspaper and grocery delivery boy, a Christmas tree salesman, a journalist, a long distance furniture mover, and a cabdriver. He is also an award-winning writer whose column appears in The Chicago Reader. He has lived in Chicago all his life.
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Westerfield's Chain : A Mystery
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WESTERFIELD'S CHAIN **AWARD FINALIST**
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Nick Acropolis a Private Eye in Chicago, tries to find a missing pharmacy owner for his daughter. Ist in series. SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE . "It was another nothing case. That's the only kind private eye Nick Acropolis seemed to get lately. But this one leads to Westerfield's Pharmacy, which sits in the heart of Chicago's West Side ghetto, surrounded by ruins. Nick was a real cop years ago, a homicide detective, and there's something about the drugstore that gets the old juices flowing. There's no customers for one thing. No pharmacist either, and nobody seems to know where the boss, Eugene Westerfield, has gone. And then Becky Westerfield shows up. She's taken a sudden leave from medical school to look for her father, who didn't call on her 25th birthday. Becky knows something must be wrong. Eugene Westerfield would never forget. Becky and Nick join forces, going from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to one of its wealthiest suburbs. They visit housing projects, the morgue, and a decrepit nursing home, hidden away between railroad lines. Becky discovers a city she never knew existed, and Nick surveys some depressing old haunts. Together, they eventually find Eugene Westerfield. But along the way they stumble into an intricate scheme of fraud and murder. Becky discovers that her father isn't the man she'd thought he was. With a plot reminiscent of Graham Greene's The Third Man and inspired by real events, Chicago native Jack Clark has crafted a winning first mystery." -- dust jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 014793