Stephen askes about any HB novels "which concern the dark
side of American unions." *Double in Trouble* by Richard
Prather & Stepehn Marlowe, a series-crossover teaming
Shell Scott and Chet Drum, has the two shamuses contending
with the "National Brotherhood of Truckers," a Mob-infested
union which is a fictional analog for the teamsters. Max
Allan Collins's
*Bullet Proof* is a novel fictionalzing Eliot Ness's
investigation of labor racketeering in the building and food
industries during his tenure as Cleveland's police chief. His
*Million Dollar Wound* involves PI Nate Heller the Mob's
attempts to take over the movie industry by taking over film
craftsmens' unions. John Creasey's *The Killing Strike* is
about Britsh rather than US unions, and involves a homicide
investigation conducted by Scotland Yard's Roger West at an
auto factory that is being struck. Jon A. Jackson's *Go by
Go* is set in Butte, Montana, during the mining strikes of
1917 and involves the murder of IWW leader Frank Little. In
many ways it reads like a "prequel" to *Red Harvest*. The
hero is a PI who infiltrates the union. The first V.I.
Warshwski novel by Sara Paretsky, the title of which escapes
me at the moment, involves the feminist PI with the corrupt
Knife-Grinders' Union in Chicago.
That should give you a start.
JIM DOHERTY
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