num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Flannery Trilogy, Volume 1
titlecomplete: A Flannery Trilogy, Volume 1
series: Jimmy Flannery
publisher: Disc Us Books Inc