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Washed-up P.I. Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But when he flamed out of an academic career, he had to return to bleak Utica, New York, where his aging father Silvio is a political kingmaker 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...
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Eliot Conte volume 02
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2014.
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""Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism" Frank Lentricchia launches book two of his new mystery series, featuring Eliot Conte, a PI who's "part Mike Hammer and part William S. Burroughs... an instant original," according to the Washington Post. Eliot Conte's story is pure noir, as he hunts for a local dog killer in ways that don't always adhere to the law. This novel features the hard diction and the fast pace of the best Italian-American crime fiction....
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