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Michael Kelly #2
Knopf
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Featuring: Michael Kelly
288 pages ISBN: 0307266877 EAN: 9780307266873 Hardcover
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Michael Harvey's sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way ("A
wonderful first novel . . .
Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique
touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a
major new voice" Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in
contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs.
O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City's answer
to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that
revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago's past. When
Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive
husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a
historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The
trail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago's North Side.
Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer to one of
Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great
Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places he'd rather
not go: specifically, City Hall's fabled fifth floor, where
the mayor is feeling the heat. Kelly becomes embroiled in a
scam that stretches from current politics back to the night
Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds
himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer
bent on rewriting history. The Fifth Floor is fast-stepping, intricately woven
suspense, rich with the lore and atmosphere of a great city.
A marvelous successor to Harvey's critically acclaimed debut.
Michael Kelly
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