Dead Folks: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery - Softcover

Jackson, Jon A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184195103X ISBN 13: 9781841951034

Publisher: Canongate Crime, 2001

Synopsis

Hit-man Joe Service is on the run from would-be assassins and suffering from partial memory loss. He enlists the help of his love-struck nurse, Cate Yoder, as he searches for his long-time lover Helen Sedlacek and the millions of dollars they heisted from the mob in the prequel "Deadman".

About this title

Review:

"Tough prose, slick scene changes and terrific line-up of cool characters are all present and correct ... Add to this a gift for lending starling violence with the cruellest humour, and he can readily claim for himself a place among the aristocracy of hard-boiled US writers." (Herald)

"Jackson's Mulheisen chronicles have created something unique: a comic soap opera in which the murderously funny writing skewers the characters so surely that nobody can budge an inch, unless you count dying as movement." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Jackson makes the hard-boiled form look as if he thought it up himself last week ... Dead Folks offers both deep reader satisfaction and anticipation over the Mulheisen series." (Newsday)

"Dead Folks reads like an episode of The Fugitive written by a clever if slightly dishevelled Elmore Leonard ... Jackson's inventiveness never falters." (The Washinton Post)

From the Back Cover:

Hit-man Joe Service is back, after spending most of Deadman - the prequel to Dead Folks - in a coma. On the run once again from would-be mob assassins and suf- fering from partial memory loss, Joe enlists the aid of his love- struck nurse, the virginal Cate Yoder, as he searches for his long-time lover Helen Sedlacek and the millions of dollars they heisted from the mob.

When Joe surfaces in Salt Lake City, Detective Sergeant 'Fang' Mulheisen, eager to finally get his man, is immediately on his tail. As the dead bodies mount up, Mulheisen is at the centre of the action, putting together the pieces of the puzzle,while Joe uses his unfailing craftiness to evade Mulheisen, the Detroit mob, a relentless hit-woman and an angry gang of Tongan giants.

In this high-spirited addition to Jackson's hard-nosed repertoire, Mulheisen's expertise and dead-on instincts lead him and Joe Service to a climactic ending that readers will not forget.

"Funny, hard-boiled and original. Do yourself a favour: add it to your list." Literary Review
"Jackson runs on an effortless but fiendish ingenuity." The Guardian
"Remodels the police procedural with skill and ingenuity. .. and as an added bonus there's some especially mordant humour." City Life
"Everything about his writing is just right." The Times
"The writing is pithy and electric, with the kind of off kilter characterisation rarely found in British crime fiction." Crime Time

Cover design + illustration by High Design, NYC

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Crime
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 184195103X
• ISBN 13: 9781841951034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272