TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Lena Horne (1917-2010)
KW - Black Americans
KW - private investigators
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Thomas Lipinski
AB - Chick Rosenthal, a “Clean Jew” who for decades ran illegal gambling—not drugs or prostitution—hires private investigator Carroll Dorsey to find Nadine Jackson, his old flame from the Hill District who was also singer Lena Horne’s sister. The connections are much deeper than Dorsey suspects.
BT - Carroll Dorsey mystery series, 4/4
C1 - 1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Highland Park; Lawrenceville; St. Francis Hospital; Bloomfield; Greenfield; Hill District; Downtown; Civic Arena; City-County Building; Allegheny County Courthouse; South Side;
C4 - Mystery; Detective
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Chick Rosenthal, a “Clean Jew” who for decades ran illegal gambling—not drugs or prostitution—hires private investigator Carroll Dorsey to find Nadine Jackson, his old flame from the Hill District who was also singer Lena Horne’s sister. The connections are much deeper than Dorsey suspects.
PB - Avon Twilight Books
PP - New York
PY - 2000
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 - 220 p.
T2 - Carroll Dorsey mystery series, 4/4
TI - Death in the Steel City
ER -