Newspaper Murders Author:Bill Granger (writing as Joe Gash) They don't give Pulitzer Prizes to guys like Francis X. Sweeney. Boozing, corrosively bitter, with a mental file of dangerous secrets, he's a Chicago reporter from the old school. Now he doesn't have to worry about keeping his mouth shut, because he's just been found at four in the morning with his head bashed in. And now Sweeney... more » himself is page one news.
Quickly the blame falls on a black messianic group called the Brothers of Mecca. But the tarnished star columnist, the ambitious street reporter, the insecure editor, the ruthless publisher, and the persuasive Mafia collector each know something they're not telling Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac. Something that could lead straight to the elusive killer.« less