Kent,
Re your question below:
> I picked up a Campbell book yesterday and
he's
> called Edgar Award-winning
> author Robert Campbell on the cover and in
the
> blurbs inside the back cover
> for the La-La Land and Jimmy Flannery series. My
PBO
> is Plugged Nickel that
> introduces railway detective Jake Hatch. Anyone
read
> it?
I've read it. Liked it (I have a penchant for railroad cop
stories since my grandpa, the first member of my family to go
into law enforcement, was a detective in the Southern Pacific
Railroad Police). Jake works for the Burlington Northern out
of Chicago which gave it some nice Midwestern flavor. There
was only one other Hatch novel, RED CENT. Under the "R.
Wright Campbell" name, he wrote another railway cop novel,
MALLOY'S SUBWAY, about an NYC Transit Police detective on the
trail of a serial killer stalking New York's subway system.
Since that book was written, Transit has been absorbed into
the NYPD and is no longer (at least officially) an autonomous
agency.
JIM DOHERTY
P.S.
With apologies to Bill for going off-topic, I haven't been
posting much the last few weeks. My Dad took suddenly ill,
and passed away on Friday, 25 May. I flew out to California
to help bury him last week.
Your prayers and good thoughts would be appreciated.
JD
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