Forty years after a person had been murdered in Riverview Park, Paul Whelan must investigate a diverse group of men and women who had been both lovers and friends to unravel the secret of the unsolved crime."
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I can't think of any series of mysteries as devoted to one particular (and particularly grungy) section of a city as Michael Raleigh's books set in Uptown Chicago. Low-rent private eye Paul Whelan squeezes the information he needs from the working stiffs of Uptown the way a cook in one of his favorite greasy spoon restaurants squeezes dirty water from a sponge. This time, he's looking into the link between two deaths, 50 years apart, on the site where a popular amusement park softened the neighborhood's rougher moments. Raleigh's last Uptown outing, Killer on Argyle Street is also available.
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Michael Minogue, an old man living in Chicago's shabby Uptown area, is murdered along the lakefront. Mrs. O'Mara sees the story in the paper and remembers that Minogue was a former partner of her brother, Joseph Colleran, who disappeared 30 years earlier. She hires Chicago private detective Paul Whelan to find her brother using Minogue's circle of cronies as a starting point. Picking up a very cold trail, Whelan learns that the unspecified "trouble" in O'Mara and Colleran's past is still brewing 40 years after it began. It's the cause of at least two deaths, and Whelan himself may be in danger. What makes this riveting private-eye yarn work is a mixture of superior Chicago atmosphere, with the ghost of the legendary Riverview amusement park lurking in the shadows; great dialogue; and compassionately drawn characters. The fifth Whelan caper is a solid entry in an underappreciated, carefully crafted series. Wes Lukowsky
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic,
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This review is from: The Riverview Murders: A Paul Whelan Mystery (Hardcover)
In 1946, former GI Ray Dudek has juts returned to Chicago after
serving in the war. Instead of a hero's welcome, Ray is murdered
during a holdup in the Riverview Amusement Park. His two closest
friends, Joe Colleran and Mike Minogue leave town soon after that to
open a bar in Florida. In 1985, Mike is murdered on a Chicago pier
overlooking lake Michigan. When Margaret O'Mara reads about the death,
she hires private investigator Paul Whelan to locate her brother, Joe,
who she has not heard from since 1959.
..... Paul begins to investigate the case and quickly links the two
murders that are four decades apart, especially since the deceased Mike
loved to talk about his cronies who had a falling out just after the
war. As Paul gets closer to the truth, he realizes that friends and
lovers have kept a secret that if disclosed could lead to the deaths of
the person revealing it and the recipient because someone wants the
secret to remain hidden.
...... THE RIVERVIEW MURDERS is a fantastic who-done-it that brings alive
the gritty North Side of Chicago. Paul, the low rent private
investigator, is a great character who is for those readers who enjoy
an old fashion hard boiled detective. The story line, like its four
predecessors is fast-paced, action packed, and loaded with more twists
than a street pretzel. Chicago is Michael Raleigh's kind of town as no
one paints the town this well since Ferris's day off.
.......Harriet Klausner
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful book,
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This review is from: The Riverview Murders: A Paul Whelan Mystery (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this look at the Chicago that never is seen on E.R. He is a very talented writer. Sue
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Riverview Murders: A Paul Whelan Mystery (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this look at the Chicago that never is seen on E.R. He is a very talented writer. Sue
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