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Town of Big Shoulders Indeed

The Third Rail by Michael Harvey

September 18, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo Review The Third Rail is the last of a trilogy of gritty Chicago mysteries featuring ex-cop and current PI Michael Kelly.  The first, The Chicago Way, focused on the police department.  The second, The Fifth Floor, expanded to the mayor’s office, and this last installment reached the last of the triumvirate that governs Chicago politics. But let’s start with the plot.  Random women, riding the public transportation system, are being assassinated. Many of the large U.S. cities were, in the 1990s, often a dangerous […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 1990s Chicago, cbr17bingo, City politics, Cover is important, Dark times, Michael Harvey, Michael Kelly PI series, Serial Killer and worse

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 1990s Chicago, cbr17bingo, City politics, Cover is important, Dark times, Michael Harvey, Michael Kelly PI series, Serial Killer and worse ·
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Smooth Like Buttah

The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey

July 25, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbrgingo17 Borrow The jacket blurb informed me that Michael Harvey was to Chicago as Raymond Chandler was to Los Angeles.  Cannot personally verify, at least for the Chicago part, but sure seems to be true.  It definitely applies to Chander’s Los Angeles. Michael Kelly, private investigator/ex-cop, gets a case from his former partner on the force.  It’s an eight-year old cold rape and battery case, but it turns out that his old partner was told to forget it ever happened.  And now when that partner […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 1970s Chicago, cbrbingo17, Cold rape and battery case, Detective and ex-cop caught up in his past, Dubious freinds, Great dialogue, Michael Harvey

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 1970s Chicago, cbrbingo17, Cold rape and battery case, Detective and ex-cop caught up in his past, Dubious freinds, Great dialogue, Michael Harvey ·
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