The Lion's Share (Jimmy Flannery Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0892966092 / Publisher: Grand Central Pub, May 1996
Democratic committeeman, sewer inspector, and amateur sleuth Jimmy Flannery goes into action to expose a complex frame-up after a prostitute shows up dead in the bed of a Chicago politician and former congressman accused of corruption
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It seems that Congressman Lundatos, who has spent the last year bucking a million ethics charges, wants to have a go at local office - this time with Jimmy Flannery as his running mate. Jimmy has a knack for finding things out, and that could be very useful to the Lion. For Jimmy, it's a shot at becoming alderman of the Fifth, the mayor's ward, and wielding more power than he has ever known. That is, if he wants to hitch up with the likes of Lundatos.Jimmy is mulling over the offer when an anonymous phone call urges him to go to a certain posh apartment in the glamorous Bridgeport district. Here, he's told, is the information he needs to make up his mind.What he finds is a very beautiful, very dead, very naked woman in a tub filled with six inches of water ... and not a drop of blood.
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