Books grouped by city; cities listed alphabetically: C ~ D
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CHICAGO,
Illinois
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$22.95
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Collins, Mas Allan,
CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signet Books,
229 pages.
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Chicago 1950 - the target of America's first-ever
congressional inquiry into
organized crime. Big trouble for anyone who knows
where the bodies are buried,
and Nate Heller has buried more than a few of them
himself. He has no illusions
about his civic duty - he prefers to stay alive and
in business, mixing with the
likes of starlet Jayne Mansfield and singer Frank
Sinatra. But certain
high-level gangsters, including Sam Giancana and the
Fischetti brothers, aren't
so sure Heller will stay discreet. After all, the
private eye's partner, ex-cop
Bill Drury, is cooperating with the feds in a big
way. And soon Heller finds
himself at the center of a federal squeeze play as Red-baiting senator Joe
McCarthy weighs in with his own threats . . . and a strange hidden agenda. When
Drury becomes the target of Syndicate assassins, and a troubled showgirl is
sadistically victimized, Heller stands up against the mob - not in court, but
with his own brand of rough justice.
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$30.00
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Highsmith, Carol M. and Ted Landphair,
CHICAGO: A Photographic Tour.
Crescent Books. NEW copy, Hardcover with dust jacket (coffee table size),
128 pages.
~~~ Chicago, A Photographic Tour is the
perfect souvenir for anyone familiar with
Chicago, and an excellent gift for anyone eager for a sense
of the strength and
style of this quintessential city of the American Midwest.
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$30.00
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Lowe, David Garrard,
LOST CHICAGO.
Watson-Guptill Publications. VG, coffee table sized PAPERBACK,
261 pages.
~~~ These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the
magical built environment - grand
residences, hotels, theaters, and department stores - that
thrilled generations
of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling
victim to the wrecking
ball of "progress."
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$12.95
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Monroe, Steve,
'57, CHICAGO.
Chicago: Talk Miramax Books. NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK, 226 pages.
~~~ In the tradition of James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard, a hard-boiled thriller set
in 1950s Chicago during the tense buildup to a high-stakes boxing match. Bobby
the Lip, a scheming down-on-his-luck sports promoter, intends to score big by
setting up--and fixing--a bout between Tomcat Gordon, the reigning heavyweight
champion, and Junior, a young black contender. But everyone wants a piece of the
action, and the Lip soon finds himself having to outsmart a hungry little crowd
of crooks, bookies, detectives, and mob goons.
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$24.95
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Paretsky, Sara,
BLACKLIST.
NEW copy, Hardcover with dust jacket.
Putnam Publishing Group, 415 pages.
~~~ In the wake of 9/11, Sara Paretsky examines the devastating effect of personal
fear set against an escalating climate of national paranoia and despair.
Blacklist, the 12th outing for Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski, is rife with
weighty themes, including terrorism, McCarthyism, and the never-ending fight to
preserve the First Amendment; but the author balances out the heaviness with
plenty of her trademark dark humor, one-line zingers, intense action, and
thrills galore.
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$25.00
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[Terkel], Tony Parker,
STUDS TERKEL: A LIFE IN WORDS. Henry Holt & Co,
1996., NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. "Studs Terkel: A Life in Words
is the story of a broadcasting and writing phenomenon and represents the
remarkable result of a sequence of meetings between the two supreme masters of
the tape-recorded interview, America's Studs Terkel and Britain's Tony Parker.
For forty years, Studs Terkel's daily radio talk show, based in Chicago, has won
him national recognition. His best-selling books, including Hard Times, Working,
and his Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Good War," are classics of oral history and
have brought him international fame. In this meeting of the maestros, Tony
Parker recounts Terkel's life story using Terkel's own method, that of the
tape-recorded interview. Through a kaleidoscope of voices - from John Kenneth
Galbraith, Mike Royko, and Calvin Trillin to Terkel's office assistant, his
family, friends, and the people with whom he's worked - the master interviewer
gradually emerges. But the soul of the book is found in Parker's extended
interviews with Terkel himself. This is the first biography with which Terkel
has cooperated, and in a series of fascinating conversations we come to know not
only the highlights of his life but also the personality of the man who can
discover the essence of people's lives in their answers to his questions."
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CLEVELAND,
Ohio
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$14.00
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Winegardner, Mark,
THE MIDNIGHT MAN.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Harvest Books, 565 pages.
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Two youngsters from different sides of the track meet in early 1950s Cleveland and carry their romance through to the tumultuous Sixties.
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DETROIT,
Michigan
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$14.00
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Estleman, Loren D.,
THE MIDNIGHT MAN.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Ibooks, 278 pages.
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An Amos Walker mystery. In Detroit's seamier side of life, Walker takes on a
case of vengeance that heads to terrorism and assassination.
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$14.00
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Estleman, Loren D.,
MOTOR CITY BLUE.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Ibooks, 244 pages.
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An Amos Walker mystery. Tough-talking Detroit detective Walker is hired by a
semi-retired gangster to find his enticing young ward--in 48 hours.
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$22.95
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Estleman, Loren D.,
THUNDER CITY.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Forge, 252 pages.
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When the twentieth century was in its infancy, two things
were invented that
would spawn the two biggest industries in history. One was
the automobile. The
other was organized crime. Thunder City presents
Detroit in the process of
becoming Motor City. Harlan Crownover, scion of a great
family of carriage
makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run
by Henry Ford, who
has failed twice before in the automobile business.
Desperate for funds, Harlan
turns to Big Jim Dolan, the Midwest's most powerful
political boss, and Sal
Borneo, a visionary Mafioso struggling to bring the
commerce of vice into the
new century. Allies at first, they soon will be mortal
enemies. At the crisis,
only Edith Hampton Crownover, Harlan's troubled,
aristocratic mother, will be in
a position to shift the balance of power.
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