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by: Hugh Holton
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780812536959
ISBN: 0812536959
Label: Forge
Manufacturer: Forge
Publication Date: 1995-07
Publisher: Forge
Sales Rank: 3828288
Studio: Forge
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Product Description:
Breaking through Margo and Neil DeWitt's portrayal of an affluent, loving couple, Chicago police Commander Larry Cole exposes their sexually deviant behavior as rapists and child molesters, only to have the DeWitt's target Cole's own young son. Tour.
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Rating: - A Detective Story about Detective Stories
Bona fide Chicago policeman Hugh Holton wrote this fresh, genre-blurring Ed McBain/Mayor Daley/Stephen King/Jessica Fletcher/Bela Lagosi/Cruella DeVille kind of book about a too-rich dastardly but dynamic Chicago duo who are stealing the modus operendi of murder mystery book villians. Can they be stopped? It's a vibrant, fast-paced tour of the Windy City from someone who knows wherefrom he writes.
Rating: - Fan-Freaking-Tastic!
My local library maintains a "recently deceased authors" display and when I was reading the obit on Robert Ludlum, I glanced over and saw the Hugh Holton display. Chicago police procedural-looked decent- picked up Windy City. Wow! what a rush! A procedural with "serial killer novel" moments of genuine horror and a golden age detective murder scheme. The murders are done in the style of various mysteries by some of the novel's characters. Sounds like a plotline from a Christie/Queen/Carr style ... Read More
Rating:  - READ
See my review of "Presumed Dead."
Rating: - Fun Page Turner
Trying a change of pace from reading and reviewing my usual novels, I picked up the Chicago based novel"Windy City' by Hugh Holton. I do feel that I have a new author to add to my library.
"Windy City" is about gruesome murders that parody the deaths written in best selling novels. The killer the wealthy Margo DeWitt believes that she is her favorite character "Magda: from her favorite novel. Det. Larry Cole the main character enlists the help of a team of authors who try to figure what ... Read More
Rating:  - CHILDISH 0 STARS
You're kidding me. That was a joke, ay? A failed attempt at some kind of spoof.
My fellow readers below and the Booklist reviewer must of read a totally different book. Or they must be personal friends of Hugh Holton. Or paid off. I mean this book couldn't even be considered a childs book the story is so illogical, unreal. It's silly silly silly and that's putting it mildly.
How does something as stupid as this get published?...that's the question! What ever you do don't buy ... Read More
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