TY - SER
KW - Italian Americans
KW - detectives
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - gambling
KW - illegal drug trade
KW - organized crime
KW - FBI
KW - police
KW - Black Americans
KW - mill towns
AU - Dana King
AB - As a new casino opens in fictitious Penns River—a depressed Allegheny River mill town which the mob is infiltrating—a drug dealer’s corpse is deposited on the front steps. Detectives Ben Dougherty and Willie Grabek must investigate the mob, small town politics, and especially casino security.
C1 - 2010s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; City-County Building; Benedum Center; PPG Paints Arena; Strip District; North Side; North Shore; PNC Park; Homewood; Squirrel Hill; Polish Hill; Fox Chapel; Pittsburgh
C4 - Mystery
CY - Eureka, CA
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - PPG Paints Arena is referred to as Consol Energy Center, as it was then known.
N2 - As a new casino opens in fictitious Penns River—a depressed Allegheny River mill town which the mob is infiltrating—a drug dealer’s corpse is deposited on the front steps. Detectives Ben Dougherty and Willie Grabek must investigate the mob, small town politics, and especially casino security.
PB - Stark House Press
PP - Eureka, CA
PY - 2013
RN - Dana King (1955— ), born on the Allegheny River in Arnold, Westmoreland County, is a novelist who works as an information analyst. He lives in Maryland.
EP - 194 p.
TI - Grind Joint
ER -