TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Serbian Americans
KW - organized crime
KW - retirement
KW - police
AU - K. C. Constantine
AB - Police chief Mario Balzic, retired in the previous three novels, is lured out as a private detective by an insurance lawyer’s offer: for $50 an hour, investigate how 40 handguns and 30,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen from a Rocksburg firearms company.
BT - Mario Balzic series, 15/17
C1 - 1990s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; University of Pittsburgh; Cathedral of Learning; East Liberty; Homewood; Westinghouse High School; South Side; Braddock; Washington County; Washington; 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 - Police chief Mario Balzic, retired in the previous three novels, is lured out as a private detective by an insurance lawyer’s offer: for $50 an hour, investigate how 40 handguns and 30,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen from a Rocksburg firearms company.
PB - The Mysterious Press of Warner Books
PP - New York
PY - 1999
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 - 375 p.
T2 - Mario Balzic series, 15/17
TI - Blood Mud
ER -