Joey's Case

Joey's Case

Author	K.C. Constantine
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	The Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date	1988
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	224
ISBN	0-89296-347-6
OCLC	16406152
Preceded by	Upon Some Midnights Clear
Followed by	Sunshine Enemies

Joey's Case is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.

The novel opens with a former coal miner, Albert Castelucci, asking Balzic to investigate the killing of his son. He feels the state police in charge of the case have botched the investigation, but when Balzic begins, he finds more puzzles than he first expected.

It is the eighth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series and was nominated for an Edgar Award.

References

Constantine, K.C. (2002). Saving Room for Dessert. New York: The Mysterious Press of Warner Books. ISBN 0-89296-763-3.

Novels by K. C. Constantine

Mario Balzic series	The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972) The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973) The Blank Page (1974) A Fix Like This (1975) The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) Always a Body to Trade (1983) Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985) Joey's Case (1988) Sunshine Enemies (1990) Bottom Liner Blues (1993) Cranks and Shadows (1995) Good Sons (1996) Family Values (1997) Brushback (1998) Blood Mud (1999)

Other novels	Grievance (novel) (2000) Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

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