TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Pennsylvania State Police
KW - Serbian Americans
KW - retirement
KW - police
AU - K. C. Constantine
AB - Former police chief Mario Balzic, retired in the previous two novels, is lured out by an offer: investigate a 17-year-old double-murder case in fictitious Wabash County (likely Bedford or Somerset). There is a drug deal gone bad, two bodies in a hunting cabin, and a corrupt small-town police chief in the Allegheny Mountains. Balzic gets good money, a break from his wife, and a new title: Special Investigator, with state credentials and $35 per hour.
BT - Mario Balzic series, 13/17
C1 - 1990s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Bedford County; Butler County; Chicora; Cambria County; Johnstown; Richland Twp.; University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Somerset County; Westmoreland County; Greensburg
C4 - Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - K. C. Constantine is a pseudonym of Carl Constantine Kosak (1934— ).
N2 - Former police chief Mario Balzic, retired in the previous two novels, is lured out by an offer: investigate a 17-year-old double-murder case in fictitious Wabash County (likely Bedford or Somerset). There is a drug deal gone bad, two bodies in a hunting cabin, and a corrupt small-town police chief in the Allegheny Mountains. Balzic gets good money, a break from his wife, and a new title: Special Investigator, with state credentials and $35 per hour.
PB - The Mysterious Press of Warner Books
PP - New York
PY - 1997
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 - 216 p.
T2 - Mario Balzic series, 13/17
TI - Family Values
ER -