TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Orthodox Christians
KW - steel industry
KW - priests
KW - private investigators
KW - insurance industry
AU - Thomas Lipinski
AB - Carroll Dorsey, a 30-something private eye, investigates disability insurance fraud by steelworkers in mill towns.  Carroll’s father is a powerful Pittsburgh politician and attorney who wants to attract new high-tech industries to replace the closed mills and earn himself kickbacks.  Movement Together, a leftist labor group headed by Father Andrew Jancek, demands protection of all factory sites, reopening them, and rehiring workers.  The group clashes with the steel companies, politicians, insurance companies, and especially Carroll Dorsey.
C1 - 1984
C3 - Beaver River; Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny River; McKeesport; Brackenridge; Pittsburgh; Downtown; North Side; South Side; Bloomfield; Point Breeze; Squirrel Hill; Central Catholic High School; Strip District; Hill District; U
C4 - Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Carroll Dorsey, a 30-something private eye, investigates disability insurance fraud by steelworkers in mill towns.  Carroll’s father is a powerful Pittsburgh politician and attorney who wants to attract new high-tech industries to replace the closed mills and earn himself kickbacks.  Movement Together, a leftist labor group headed by Father Andrew Jancek, demands protection of all factory sites, reopening them, and rehiring workers.  The group clashes with the steel companies, politicians, insurance companies, and especially Carroll Dorsey.
PB - St. Martin's Press
PP - New York
PY - 1994
RN - Thomas Lipinski (1954—2018), born and raised in Pittsburgh, worked as a social worker, an auto repo man, a jail administrator, and an insurance investigator. He earned a MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and was professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
EP - 266 p.
TI - The Fall-Down Artist
ER -