Michael Raleigh

A Paul Whelan Mystery

1 - Death in Uptown (Aug-1991)
2 - A Body in Belmont Harbor (Mar-1993)
3 - The Maxwell Street Blues (Sep-1994)
4 - Killer on Argyle Street (Oct-1995)
5 - The Riverview Murders (Jul-1997)

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  Death in Uptown
  

  • Aug-1991
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  A Paul Whelan Mystery - 1
  

  A killer terrorizes a diverse Chicago neighborhood in this “impressive first mystery” (Publishers Weekly).   Private investigator Paul Whelan’s specialty is tracking down missing persons. But when his good friend is found slain in an alley...

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  A Body in Belmont Harbor
  

  • Mar-1993
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  A Paul Whelan Mystery - 2
  

  Death on the Chicago waterfront pulls a PI into a twisting case: “An underappreciated, carefully crafted series” (Booklist).   Two years ago, a computer software specialist was found dead in Belmont Harbor, an apparent suicide. Now, the body...

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  The Maxwell Street Blues
  

  • Sep-1994
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  A Paul Whelan Mystery - 3
  

  A PI combs the seedy Chicago streets to untangle a web of old feuds that may have turned fatal: “This series is a small treasure” (Booklist).   Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hus...

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  Killer on Argyle Street
  

  • Oct-1995
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  A Paul Whelan Mystery - 4
  

  A Chicago PI hunts for a missing kid who fell in with the wrong crowd: “Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan” (Publishers Weekly).   An elderly woman has asked private investigator Paul Whelan to look into the disappear...

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  The Riverview Murders
  

  • Jul-1997
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  A Paul Whelan Mystery - 5
  

  “The mystery fiction that Sara Paretsky fashions from Chicago’s South Side is fully matched in Raleigh’s gritty North Side tales” (Publishers Weekly).   Margaret O’Mara’s brother disappeared decades ago. But now that his last known a...

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  In the Castle of the Flynns
  

  • Feb-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  When Daniel Dorsey's parents die in a car crash, it's a devastating loss. But once the wake is over, at least he's fortunate enough to have a large extended family welcoming him with open arms, offering him care and comfort...and another chance at ch...

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  Blue Moon Circus
  

  • Mar-2004
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  For the boy, it was the first real chance for a future. For the man, it was one last chance to triumph over his past. Opportunities like these happen only once in a Blue Moon."An absolute charmer." -- Library Journal Starred Review"Simply put, this i...

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  The Conjurer's Boy
  

  • Nov-2012
  • / Fantasy
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  The Conjuror's Boy is the saga of Thomas Faye, a fatherless boy who enters a junk shop on a gray Chicago day in 1962 and is forever changed by the two men he meets there. Arthur Farrell, the proprietor, is a sometime-magician,raconteur, wanderer, a w...

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  Peerless Detective
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Private Investigator
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  In 1970s Chicago, a young man searches for the woman he lost -- and finds a mystery: “Clever and surprising, a pleasure of a read” (Michael Allen Dymmoch, award-winning author of the Caleb & Thinnes novels).   Home from military service,...

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  Murder in the Summer of Love
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  In the summer of 1967, a Florida bookie is found dead in a Chicago motel, a businessman is missing along with a satchel of money, and Private Eye Harry Strummer is in the middle of it....

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  Poe Street
  

  • Mar-2023
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  It is the summer of 1946, the sinister, Gatsby-like millionaire Cary Morrison is found dead in his Chicago mansion, apparently the victim of a burglary gone hopelessly wrong. Soon after, the burglars themselves are found dead, one by one. Ray Foley, ...

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