Michael Harveyâ€™s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (â€œA wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds

The Fifth Floor

Michael Harveyâ€™s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (â€œA wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a major new voiceâ€ â€”Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. Oâ€™Learyâ€™s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy Cityâ€™s answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicagoâ€™s past. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The trail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicagoâ€™s North Side. Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer to one of Chicagoâ€™s most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places heâ€™d rather not go: specifically, City Hallâ€™s fabled fifth floor, where the mayor is feeling the heat. Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.

The Fifth Floor is fast-stepping, intricately woven suspense, rich with the lore and atmosphere of a great city. A marvelous successor to Harveyâ€™s critically acclaimed debut.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber SD212-VS03252020-6
ReleaseDate 2008-08-26
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307266873

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	SD212-VS03252020-6
ReleaseDate	2008-08-26
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307266873

The Fifth Floor

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