TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Serbian Americans
KW - Arab Americans
KW - Indian Americans
KW - organized crime
KW - hospitals
KW - United Mine Workers
KW - priests
KW - police
AU - K. C. Constantine
AB - Garbageman Tullio the Tub hauls his brother Fat Manny Manditti, a numbers runner, to the emergency room after a near-fatal knifing. Tullio offers no details to police chief Mario Balzic, who worries the Western Pennsylvania mob will get revenge and who wonders if this is connected to recent troubles with his parish’s lottery.
BT - Mario Balzic series, 4/17
C1 - 1970s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Westmoreland County; Greensburg
C4 - Mystery; Detective
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - K. C. Constantine is a pseudonym of Carl Constantine Kosak (1934— ).
N2 - Garbageman Tullio the Tub hauls his brother Fat Manny Manditti, a numbers runner, to the emergency room after a near-fatal knifing. Tullio offers no details to police chief Mario Balzic, who worries the Western Pennsylvania mob will get revenge and who wonders if this is connected to recent troubles with his parish’s lottery.
PB - Saturday Review Books / E. P. Dutton
PP - New York
PY - 1975
RN - Carl Constantine Kosak (1934— ) was born in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County and educated at Westminster College. He wrote under the K.C. Constantine pseudonym for 40 years before unveiling his identity at the 16th Festival of Mystery held by Oakmont's Mystery Lovers Bookshop. He lives in Greensburg, Westmoreland County.
EP - 185 p.
T2 - Mario Balzic series, 4/17
TI - A Fix Like This
ER -