The accidental pallbearer /

The accidental pallbearer /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lentricchia, Frank.
Imprint:	Brooklyn : Melville House, [2013]
Description:	197 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Series:	An Eliot Conte mystery An Eliot Conte mystery
Subject:	Conte, Eliot -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Conte, Eliot -- (Fictitious character) Friendship -- Fiction. Police -- Fiction. Law enforcement -- Fiction. Organized crime -- Fiction. Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. Friendship. Law enforcement. Murder -- Investigation. Organized crime. Police. Private investigators. New York (State) -- Utica. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10041860

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ISBN:	9781612191713 (pbk.) 1612191711 (pbk.)
Summary:	Introducing a gritty new detective series set in the bleak hinterlands of upstate new York. Washed up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he flamed out of an academic career when he hung the Provost of UCLA out a window, and he had to come home, to bleak Utica, New York, where his aging father, Silvio Conte, a political kingmaker, is still cutting deals and hustling appointments, and his all but in blood brother Antonio Robinson is the city's first black Chief of Police. But now Antonio's asking him for a favour that, to Eliot, doesn't seem like the kind of thing a police chief should ask for ... especially as he begins to uncover a trail of evidence leading back to the most sensational hit in local Mafia history. In a Utica marked by economic devastation and racial tensions, Eliot picks up one strand after another, weaving his way through a web of allegiances, grudges, and his own dark demons. Who is the spider at the center of it all?

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Summary:	Washed up private detective Eliot Conte is still reeling from the murders of his two adult children when Utica police chief - and childhood best friend - Antonio Robinson involves him in a murderous plot that may lead straight to a New York state politico and kingmaker, Silvio Conte-Eliot's father. Readers will be hooked by this fast-paced, hard-boiled new crime series. The Accidental Pallbearer is Lentricchia's eighth work of fiction and the first in a projected series of crime novels set in Utica, a city struggling to cope.
Physical Description:	197 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781612191713 1612191711