Man With an Axe
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ISBN: 0871137089 / Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, March 1998
When a headless body is discovered and a young boy arrives bearing a disturbing message, Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen must search for answers in jazz history, police archives, and his mentor's personal journals, and as he gets closer to the truth,the Mafia becomes determined to stop him
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It's springtime in Detroit and Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen has settled in for a period of repose - he thinks. But when a young kid arrives with an E-mail cartoon message addressed to Mulheisen depicting a murder and an alluring young historian suddenly wants to know all about Grootka, Mulheisen begins a scavenger hunt to uncover the notebooks Grootka left behind. It turns out that Grootka knew a lot more than he ever told Mulheisen, or anyone. Such as what happened to Jimmy Hoffa one lonely weekend in an isolated African-American resort town on the Great Lakes, and the advice Grootka gave him: "When push comes to shove, kick is better." Mulheisen soon discovers that neither the young historian nor modern jazz's rising star is what he seems.
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