Review: The Real Detective
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2012
Mike Phelps, a real Chief of Detectives, has crafted a wonderful Detective story about finding justice for a murdered Jockey and freedom for his widow who has been accused of the crime eight years after the event by a crooked political establishment in a small town where the police and the judge look the other way as corruption and race fixing prevail at the local race track.Detective Mike Walsh and his assistant Rosa work for a high power law firm that is hired to defend the wrongly accused defendants and to uncover the truth about who murdered a jockey who was the husband of one of the defendants. In the process they discover who murdered two other jockeys.The Jockey's Justice is meticulous in detail as Mike Phelps walks you through how an actual case is solved by an excellent detective who knows what he is doing and is willing to go the extra mile to prove his clients innocent. Lots of characters so well described you'll know them on a first name basis. You will feel like you are eating prime rib with Mike and Rosa at dinner, enjoying drinks with them and even experiencing what it's like to be under fire from Chicago gangsters in your car as the bullets speed toward you.This is an excellently constructed detective mystery that deserves five stars. Pure entertainment. This is the way it should be written.