TY - SER
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - journalists
KW - office workers
KW - layoffs
KW - shopping malls
KW - police
KW - Black Americans
KW - local politicians
KW - Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
KW - petnapping
KW - Pittsburgh Dad
KW - private investigators
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - John Novak
AB - After being laid off, Yunko, an office worker, joins with his old friend Walter “Ducky” Simka to aid a local billionaire who desperately wants his dog Guff stolen back from a vengeful ex-wife.
C1 - 2010s
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - The novel was inspired by Donald E. Westlake’s <em>The Hot Rock</em> (1970).
N2 - After being laid off, Yunko, an office worker, joins with his old friend Walter “Ducky” Simka to aid a local billionaire who desperately wants his dog Guff stolen back from a vengeful ex-wife.
PB - Privately Published
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 2014
RN - John Novak (1969— ) is the pseudonym of a Western Pennsylvania native who has lived in Pittsburgh the last 25 years.
EP - 345 p.
TI - The Hot Dog
ER -