Hit on the House: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries (Detective Sergeant Mullheisen Mysteries) - Softcover

Jackson, Jon A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802137059 ISBN 13: 9780802137050

Publisher: Grove Press, 2000

Synopsis

In Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as "an unqualifiably brilliant novel," Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to whack Big Sid Sedlacek--a mob heavy who's been on the take. Picked up as a possible witness, Hal switches IDs with a drunk and walks out of jail before Mulheisen can question him. Soon other Mob higher-ups begin to meet bloody ends, and a woman from Mulheisen's past turns up married to an abrasive computer entrepreneur with a suspicious number of friends in "the business." As the investigation gets ever more unwieldy, the body count mounts, while the millions of dollars skimmed by Big Sid and his unnamed partners--including, maybe, Hal--stay missing.

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Product Description:

The first novel of acclaimed crime writer Jackson to be published in the UK, a darkly comic tale in which mafia chieftain are being systematically bumped off. Some shelfwear and bump but otherwise crisp and clean. Very good condition

Review:

Someone is taking out the senior gangsters of Detroit; Big Sid is shot outside his house and Frosty Tubman in a dark alley, and there is money missing, lots and lots of money. In Hit on the House, homicide cop Mulheisen mounts an investigation, of course, and so do the surviving seniors of gangland; Joe Service swore he would never go back to Detroit, but the money he is being offered to investigate is too good by half to refuse. We know who did the first killing, of course, but the later ones remain something of a mystery almost to the end of the book; the fun and the puzzle here is as much to do with watching two professionals investigating the same facts from very different angles and with very different agendas. This is also a toughly sentimental book, in which both detectives find a sort of love, and both find out rather more about that love than they ever really wanted to know. Jackson's sardonically witty thriller of embezzlement and embarrassment is a quiet triumph of understated noir fiction with a real sense of place and some memorable characters. --Roz Kaveney

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802137059
• ISBN 13: 9780802137050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256