Nibbled to Death by Ducks — Robert Campbell

Jimmy Flannery is a tough, red-headed little Irishman--a Chicago sewer inspector, Democratic precinct captain, and part-time sleuth with a heart of gold. In NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, he returns from vacation to discover that Chips Delvin, his sewer boss and political patron, has been placed in a nursing home. Add a long-lost cousin, an overly conscientious candy striper, and a dead man in the duck pond, and you've got a scenario that stinks worse than a Chicago sewer... ,