Anyone read "Three Strikes You're Dead"?

[Brian Sheridan]

The book is written by Robert Goldsborough who continued the Nero Wolfe stories.

Here is it's Booklist description:


"Steve Malek is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1938. Lloyd Martindale is the heir to a huge steel fortune and is mounting a challenge to the incumbent mayor, Edward J Kelly. The key to his platform is stamping out organized crime, so when he is gunned down, conventional wisdom pins the killing on the Mob. Malek, trying to resuscitate his career after a battle with the bottle and a divorce, doesn't buy the Mob theory. His suspicions are confirmed when he is summoned to the Joliet penitentiary to meet with Al Capone. The legendary crime boss assures Malek that his boys had nothing to do with Martindale's death and makes it clear that Malek will be healthier if he finds out who the real killer was. Goldsborough, best known as the heir to Rex Stout via his half-dozen Nero Wolfe novels, creates a prewar Chicago that is at once sinister and appealing. He also weaves an engaging subplot involving Dizzy Dean and the Chicago Cubs' drive to the 1938 World Series. An enormously entertaining caper."

There is one sequal out and another on the way.

 

[ScionPI2005]

I haven't read it, though I am a sucker for good crime stories from the golden era. I'll have to keep a lookout for that one.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Some Borders carry the book. I just interlibrary loaned it. It looks like just my kind of thing. I liked Goldsborough's Nero Wolfe book's even though they did not measure up to the King (Rex), they were better than the James Bond continuation novels.