The Shooting Gallery: A Detective Yablonsky Mystery - Softcover

Trigoboff, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592281435 ISBN 13: 9781592281435

Publisher: UNKNO, 2004

Synopsis

[2015 Reprint] After Detective Yablonsky stumbles over the body of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in Central Park, he follows the murder clues into the seedy underbelly of Manhattan's elite world of the rich and famous. The victim, Skinny McPherson was a tough-hitting reporter for the alternative newspaper The Guardian and had high-powered enemies everywhere—from real-estate mogul Raymond Staples to crooked judge Dollars Dillon. But the more Detective Yablonsky investigates, the further he is mired in the hard-boiled world of corruption and murder. Ultimately he traces his quarry to the heart of the East Village, where Starbucks and drug-infested “shooting galleries” sit side-by-side. Lean, taut, and gripping at every turn, The Shooting Gallery is a return to form for one of America's premiere voices in mystery writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Trigoboff is the author of several books, including The Bone Orchard, the first installment in the Detective Yablonsky series, and his memoir Rumble in Brooklyn, the gripping tale of his childhood among the teenage gangs of East New York. He now makes his home with his family in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Boasting a blurb from such notable personages as Norman Mailer, this sequel to the critically acclaimed first book in the series, The Bone Orchard (1990), shows Trigoboff hasn't lost his touch. In this entertaining thriller heavy on sociology and liberal '60s political sentiments, the redoubtable New York police detective Alvin Yablonsky is assigned to investigate the murder of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Skinny McPherson, a reporter for a left-wing newspaper, the Village Guardian. Yablonsky's search inevitably leads to Manhattan's literary and judicial elite, a cadre of corrupt officials and a violent climax in the East Village's drug-infested "shooting galleries." Since the author grew up in the tough Brownsville-East New York neighborhood, it's small wonder that his narratives are as much sociological commentary as crime novels, or that the level of authenticity is so high. There are some genuinely hackle-raising scenes, notably Yablonsky's exploration of a booby-trapped drug den. ("Yablonsky passed decoy drug stashes filled with potassium chloride and red phosphorous that would explode if touched. At the top, moving away from the stairway, he dodged a trip wire with a grenade attached.") Trigoboff's spare, supple style is admirably suited to his subject matter, and if the praise from high-profile writers ranging from Peter Straub to James Crumley seems excessive, it's still a high-octane thriller from a writer whose gravitas is unquestionable.
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About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592281435
• ISBN 13: 9781592281435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320