TY - SER KW - Native Americans KW - Roman Catholics KW - burial mounds KW - Italian Americans KW - Pennsylvania State Police KW - Russian Americans KW - Orthodox Christians KW - Serbian Americans KW - farms KW - deindustrialization KW - Pennsylvania Turnpike KW - writers KW - steel industry KW - truck drivers KW - priests KW - police KW - coal industry AU - K. C. Constantine AB - Police chief Mario Balzic is mourning his mother’s recent death. Balzic then gets a call from Valery, a woman who thinks her husband may be out to exact revenge on a truck driver with a questionable past and wants Balzic to prevent the attack. BT - Mario Balzic series, 10/17 C1 - 1990s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Carnegie Museum; Montefiore Hospital; University of Pittsburgh; Hillman Library; Homestead; Homestead Steel Works; Sandcastle water park; Braddock; Clairton; Wilkinsburg; Rankin; Beaver County; Aliquippa; Ambridge; C C4 - Mystery CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - K. C. Constantine is a pseudonym of Carl Constantine Kosak (1934— ). N2 - Police chief Mario Balzic is mourning his mother’s recent death. Balzic then gets a call from Valery, a woman who thinks her husband may be out to exact revenge on a truck driver with a questionable past and wants Balzic to prevent the attack. PB - The Mysterious Press of Warner Books PP - New York PY - 1993 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 - 250 p. T2 - Mario Balzic series, 10/17 TI - Bottom Liner Blues ER -