num_pages: 608
description: A killer calling himself The Deathmaker is on the loose, pursued by Arnold Magnuson, a grief-stricken detective on the verge of a mental breakdown. Magnuson’s dogged investigation to find the killer, and himself, takes him deep into urban Chicago, laying bare the corrupt city and its seething soul in all its macabre, heartbreaking, and violent complexity.
language: English
title: The Death of the Detective
titlecomplete: The Death of the Detective
genres: Fiction, Crime, Noir, Mystery
ratings_count: 146
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Northwestern University Press