Michael Raleigh Books In Order

Paul Whelan Books In Order

  1. Death in Uptown (1991)
  2. A Body in Belmont Harbor (1993)
  3. The Maxwell Street Blues (1994)
  4. Killer on Argyle Street (1995)
  5. The Riverview Murders (1997)

Harry Strummer Books In Order

  1. Murder in the Summer of Love (2021)

Novels

  1. In the Castle of the Flynns (2002)
  2. The Blue Moon Circus (2003)
  3. Peerless Detective (2015)

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Michael Raleigh Books Overview

Death in Uptown

Death in Uptown is the first book in Michael Raleigh’s widely praised Paul Whelan series. In this novel, a killer is loose in Chicago’s colorful and racially diverse Uptown neighborhood, and Paul Whelan finds himself drawn in for personal reasons. His search for the killer is complicated by the arrival of a client, an attractive young woman seeking her lost brother, and Whelan soon realizes that the woman’s brother is somehow involved in his search, a search which does not end till five men are dead.

A Body in Belmont Harbor

A Body in Belmont Harbor is the second book in Michael Raleigh’s widely praised Paul Whelan series. As this novel opens, the body of a small time drug dealer is washed up in Belmont Harbor among the yachts of Chicago’s wealthy, and a woman hires Paul Whelan to investigate the suicide of her husband, who once knew the drug dealer. Whelan’s investigation takes him along Chicago’s beautiful lakefront into the haunts of the well heeled, and he soon finds that someone has begun stalking him.

The Maxwell Street Blues

In The Maxwell Street Blues, the third novel in Michael Raleigh’s Paul Whelan series of private eye novels, Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to look in to the murder of his boyhood friend, a dealer in Chicago’s great open air flea market, Maxwell Street. Whelan’s investigation leads him into the dealer’s past, and uncovers old feuds and wounds and an interracial romance. The story takes Whelan into some of Chicago’s oldest neighborhoods and most interesting communities and introduces him to a rich, often funny cast of characters.

Killer on Argyle Street

A faceless killer is murdering the members of a car theft ring, and Paul Whelan is hired to find a boy who may have seen the murderer, a man with a chameleon like ability to change his appearance. Whelan’s search leads him to Argyle Street, the busy, exotic Asian strip at the edge of the Uptown neighborhood, where all the evidence suggests that the murderer may already have gotten the boy. Along the way Whelan learns that another man is involved, a boyhood friend Whelan had believed to be dead, and Whelan comes to believe that more than one person is involved in the murders.

The Riverview Murders

Forty years after a person had been murdered in Riverview Park, Paul Whelan must investigate a diverse group of men and women who had been both lovers and friends to unravel the secret of the unsolved crime.’

In the Castle of the Flynns

The year is 1954 and Daniel Dorsey learns at the age of eight the intimate meaning of death when his parents are killed in a car crash. Taken in by his colorful, at times mad, and always tender and caring extended family, Daniel learns that even the deepest sorrows and hurt can be healed. Michael Raleigh’s In the Castle of the Flynns is about a young boy growing up Irish in a vibrant 1950s Chicago neighborhood. Now grown and looking back on those years, Daniel recalls his bouts with grief and fear of abandonment as he learns to adjust to his new surroundings amidst his oddball family. It is a time of wakes and weddings, conflicts and romance. Above all, it is a time when Daniel comes to understand both his own loss and the dark places in the lives of his loved ones. In the Castle of the Flynns is a poignant, often hilarious story of hope, passions and unforgettable memories. It is a novel that will make grown men weep, women cry and cause both to break out in great guffaws of laughter.

The Blue Moon Circus

For the boy, it was the first real chance for a future…
For the man, it was one last chance to triumph over his past…
Opportunities like these happen only once in a Blue Moon Lewis Tully is a circus man, and he’s seen his fair share of disasters. Lewis and his preposterous group of performers have survived sabotage, biblical scale floods and even the occasional renegade monkey. Convinced that it s time to settle down, grow up and grow old, Lewis finds himself in an impossible predicament: go to jail or produce one last hurrah. The year is 1926, and with little money and a broken down big top, Lewis puts out the call to his friends for one more spin in the spotlight. He assembles the most unusual band of characters this side of the midway, including a master magician down to his last tricks, a clumsy snake handler who dies quite literally at each performance, a gruff Russian who trains housecats and an aging camel hell bent on vengeance. Along with Charlie, a nine year old orphan reluctantly in his care, Lewis embarks on a dusty odyssey across the American West. If he can just keep his last circus going, Lewis might be able to keep this peculiar family together. At turns hilarious and achingly touching, and brim*ming with the authentic circus lore of the 1920s, The Blue Moon Circus brings to life a carnival of wild and wondrous characters from another time, in an absolutely unforgettable place.

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