The Gift Horse's Mouth: A Jimmy Flannery Mystery Hardcover – November 1, 1990
by Robert Campbell
Book 7 of 11: Jimmy Flannery Mysteries
 
*** EDGAR and Anthony Award Winning Author ***
"I'm standing in front of the pale gray brushed-steel casket with rose-colored silk lining and pillow upon which Goldie Hanrahan's head is laying, when for no reason I can explain I'm thinking of the old one where the killer returns to see his victim off, and I'm looking around the room. . .at the party bosses, ward heelers, warlords and political movers and shakers of Chicago.

Who'd want to put Goldie away? She was a woman who'd been a power in this city. A woman who'd been catnip to the men when she was a girl and even after. A woman who maybe had a secret that somebody wanted kept a secret. Somebody right here in this room."
 
From Publishers Weekly
In the seventh entry in Campbell's splendid series featuring Chicago sewer inspector Jimmy Flannery (the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog ), the part-time detective is moved by incipient parenthood to rea c h at last for the committeeman's job in the 27th ward. As an established cog in the city's dying Democratic machine, he is obliged to respond when party head Ray Carrigan asks him to look into the strange death of his retired secretary. Goldie Hanrahan was not only a power broker within the party, she was also something of a hot number, whose entanglements included a whole list of old-time pols, not the least of whom was Flannery's father. The death is somehow tied to the birth of Goldie's illegitimate son some 40 years earlier, and Flannery soon begins uncovering secrets a lot of people would rather leave buried. As always Campbell's dialogue and ambience are perfect. Flannery and his familiar supporting cast are among the most consistently entertaining figures in the genre.
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