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Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( C ) : Campbell, Robert
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At the corner of Hollywood and Vine, the news walked straight through the doors of Gentry's Coffee Shop and sat down at Whistler's table. The facts: a boy named Kenny Gotch, a.k.a. Harriet LaRue, was dead, leaving behind a clue to a murder Whistler would rather forget. Whistler once worked alongside police detective Isaac Canaan, searching for whoever stole and mutilated Canaan's little niece and left her body draped over a tombstone in Hollywood Cemetery. Now Whistler sees a chance to solve the crime that still plagues Canaan's soul.Few know more about Kenny than that he favored purple dresses and rhinestone shoes. His phone was on auto-dial to a boy called Pooch, a professor who looks like Howdy-Doody, and a child-snatching Satanist, but not to Mary Bucket, the pretty nurse who was there when Kenny died...and who has what it takes to put Whistler under her spell. Yet once Canaan himself starts following Kenny's trail of dangerous connections, nothing can keep Whistler from shadowing his progress through a nether world of glittering lies and faded promise, where the only thing that can't be bought is hype.
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Nell Twelvetrees thinks her soon to be ex-husband Roger, a famous talk-show host, is aiming to have her killed and hires P.I. Whistler to be her bodyguard. Beautiful, blonde, rich and classy, she is a mystery that keeps unfolding, luring Whistler deeper and deeper into trouble. For beneath the smiling face of Roger Twelvetrees there hides a sadistic psychopath for whom lust and violence are one.Yet nothing in La-La Land is what it seems, for behind the facades of the rich and glamorous lie corruption and depravity. And in the darkness of the twisted mean streets lurks the mysterious Alice...Alice who is spinning an intricate web around Twelvetrees to settle an old score.
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P.I. Whistler dreams of a lost love who suddenly appears on the boulevard with her feet in the prints left by Myrna Loy. Her name is Faye. Fifteen years before, she's left Whistler for a hillbilly by the name of Inch Younger. But Younger was convicted in a notorious satanic murder case, leaving Faye pregnant and alone. She's found her own private skid row and dumped the child.The pain of her betrayal haunts her. Listening, Whistler starts dreaming again, about lost love reclaimed, a boy found, perhaps a nice little house for them all. So he promises Faye he'll find her boy. Meanwhile, Inch has been paroled, seeking recompense - or even revenge.
Shot through with the American dream of instant fame and money, Campbell combines a gripping crime investigation with his own satanic vision of L.A.
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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. NYT. "
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A Flannery Trilogy, Volume 1 combines The Junkyard Dog (Edgar winner), The 600lb Gorilla, and Hip-Deep in Alligators.The Junkyard Dog is an Edgar winner and the first in the series of mysteries featuring the captivating Jimmy Flannery, everybody's favorite Chicago politician. Chicago is Jimmy's kind of town. A tough Irishman with street smarts, he's part of a political machine that runs on favors and friendships. Flannery's particular piece of the patronage pie is the 27th Ward, and anything that happens there is his business. Even murder. So when an anti-abortion demonstration ends with a bomb blast that kills two women, Flannery takes it personally. But someone's stonewalling the investigation, and Flannery's starting to wonder why...
In The 600lb Gorilla Flannery accepts an unusual assignment from the Mayor. Freezing temperatures overload the generator at Lincoln Zoo and now Baby - the city's favorite gorilla - needs a place to stay. The Paradise Baths strike Flannery as the perfect sanctuary. But when two men are found beaten to death in the steam room, only Flannery believes Baby is innocent...
Hip-Deep in Alligators finds Flannery hip-deep in the city's sewers, sent there by the machine bosses to teach him to keep his nose out of other people's business. But when he fishes a body that's been chewed in half by an alligator out of the city's waste, Flannery smells a rat.
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When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snuff films, and drunken TV stars in BMW's - that's what makes the L.A. world go 'round, whether you like it or not. And when orders come down from the top L.A.P.D. echelons to let a drunk-driving actor (but not hi sexy girlfriend) off the hook, and to call the corpse a special effects dummy, the cops definitely don't like it.Enter Whistler, a private eye given to philosophical ruminations in seedy coffee shops. Whistler hates to see beautiful blondes in trouble as much as he hates to see this sort of garbage covered up - he's afraid he might step in it one day. Once he rips the lid off, though, he may question just how much it's good to know.
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With Juice, Campbell breaks out with his first non-series crime title, sure to be his biggest hit yet. Juice is a rollercoaster of a story that pulses with energy, suspense, and a healthy dose of offbeat humor. "Full of good-time crime and a pleasure to read."--Elmore Leonard. HC: Poseidon Press.