The Lion's Share - Softcover

Campbell, Robert

3.62

39 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446404640 ISBN 13: 9780446404648

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1997

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A sewer inspector and Democratic committeeman for Chicago's notorious 27th Ward, Jimmy Flannery is given the chance to become an alderman, if he can clear the name of his running mate, Congressman Leo "the Lion" Lundatos, who is the prime suspect in the killing of a prostitute. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Every cloud seems to have a silver lining in the tenth Jimmy Flannery mystery (following Sauce for the Goose). The rise of sewer inspector Flannery through Chicago's political ranks might be expected to stall with the death of his longtime mentor, Chips Devlin. The old man goes gently, in his bed, with a smile on his old Irish face and possibly after some paid female company; he has bequeathed his Bridgeport house to Flannery, his wife and their baby daughter. The political vacuum left by Devlin's passing is one that disgraced congressman Leo Lundatos would cheerfully fill, with Flannery's help. Meanwhile, two ex-cops, one a recent sex change, are fighting over a prostitution franchise. One of their contested employees, very possibly Devlin's last angel of mercy, dies in a house owned by Lundatos's wife, a perky redhead with an unsettling effect on Flannery. Although Campbell doesn't provide a great deal of narrative firepower here, he musters all the romantic urban crime elements that have garnered this series its deserved heap of praise: the ever noble Flannery; the anachronistic Chicago neighborhood settings; and a forgiving approach to those, such as a good woman who turns to prostitution for a host of noble reasons, who fail to be saints in the city. Flannery's grammar might stumble on occasion, but his Hibernian heart is always in the right place.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Bad news, good news. Jimmy Flannery's mentor, Chips Delvin, is dead of a heart attack, and the house he's left his old prot‚g‚ can't make up for the holes he's left in Chicago's 27th Precinct and Jimmy's heart. On the other hand, former Congressman Leo Lundatos has suddenly taken a fatherly interest in Jimmy, whom he wants to run as committeeman to Leo the Lion's alderman, with an option of the alderman's seat next time around. The only problem is that Jimmy can link Leo to the very proper call girl who was Chips's last companion--and who's already followed him to the mortuary. Will Jimmy, the consummate ward-heeler, yield to temptation, or will he pull every string he can to get to the bottom of the lady's death? Even more than Jimmy's other adventures, his tenth (Sauce for the Goose, 1995, etc.) is just barely plotted--with the tiny mystery shrouded in glad-handing, blarney, and homespun philosophy--and altogether delightful. -- Copyright �1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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