Blind Pig A Mystery novel about Guns, Crime and a Cop Named Mulheisen in one of America's Most Violent Cities

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with only the barest hint of edge wear to the spine ends. This is the author's second novel, following THE DIEHARD. "The whole thing begins simply enough with a routine shoot-out between two patrolmen and a man with a gun in the garage of a respectable businessman. The death of the armed intruder at the hands of the trigger-eager cop is considered a grounder, an easy case." "Jon Anthony Jackson, born 5 November 1938 in Royal Oak in Michigan , is an American writer, author of detective story...He published in 1977 his first novel Thou headers? (The Diehard) featuring the sergeant Mulheisen the homicide department, nicknamed Sergeant hook because of his teeth. This novel, selected in May 1977 by the Mystery Guild (in) , is according to Claude Mesplède "a complete success, whether in the plot, the story of police procedure led to a mile a minute or Relationships between the characters. The author has succeeded in a big way to give their lives away from stereotypes. " . Mulheisen is the hero of a dozen novels of the genre of police procedure . The action of the novel takes place in the city of Detroit ." .