The Blind Pig: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries [Paperback]

Jon A. Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2000 | Series: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries

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 using her own brand of ammo on Mulheisen in the after-hours world of Detroit jazz, and Mulheisen has figured out that the shootings revolve around a young man who'd struck it rich in trucking--and then everything explodes when someone pulls off a million-dollar heist. The take? Sleek, beautiful guns--enough to start a war.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press (July 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802137067
• ISBN-13: 978-0802137067
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,329,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Plotting makes it work..., February 15, 2004

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LGwriter "SharpWitGuy" (Astoria, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Blind Pig (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of Jon Jackson's first novels featuring Sergeant Mulheisen of the Detroit PD, if not the first. The plotting here is excellent; there are a lot of threads that Jackson knows how to interweave, giving this baby momentum. And once in a great while there's a genuinely funny line. The characters are nicely drawn, too. The fly in the ointment is the writing which can be occasionally clunky and awkward. If that doesn't bother you, then this is a nifty little police procedural that, for fans of the genre, will keep you going.

Mulheisen, portrayed as one of the cooler heads on the force, gets drawn into a few different crime threads. A mysterious intruder at the home of a young wealthy trucking magnate is killed by two patrolmen. Two thugs come into a local watering hole and shoot up both the jukebox and the cigarette machine, purportedly owned by the same young trucking tycoon. A great looking woman, a friend of the tycoon, lures Mulheisen with her sexiness and charm, and, later disappears. And a huge gun heist, coupled with a huge crash involving a runaway train, brings things to a head.

Lotta stuff going on here, but Jackson pulls it all together well. Mulheisen has to put the puzzle pieces together and does an admirable job, for sure. It's unfortunate that the choppy writing gets in the way; otherwise, it would rate at least four stars.

Your call.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Blind Pig, April 7, 2001

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This review is from: The Blind Pig: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries (Paperback)

This is an absolutely fantastic book. As an ex-Detroiter, I especially enjoyed it. Mr. Jackson writes one of the best humorous crime type books available. His information about Detroit is perfect, I guess he lived there too! I honestly hated to finish this book because I knew that it would take me a long time to find a novel that I would enjoy as much as this one.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like hard boiled?, February 22, 2010

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Frank Hayes (Grass Valley, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Blind Pig: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries (Paperback)

Probably my favorite of Jon's books, he has the dialect or slang down like he grew up on the ' wrong side of the tracks'! He's right up there with Elmore Leonard!!