Jeff Coen
Autor(a) de Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
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Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up (2021) 20 exemplares
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 78
- Popularidade
- #229,022
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 18
The book has two main issues, one the author's fault, the other not. The first, and not the author's issue, is that there is nothing satisfying about the conclusion of the investigation for the reader, or the detective. The case was simply too well obstructed, too many of the main players are already dead, and the few that are still around are still tight-lipped despite the fact that there seems very little chance of bringing any charges against anyone. So the book ends with the status quo ante.
The second issue is repetitiveness. This book probably could have been an extended pamphlet rather than a book. This is evidenced by a very long chapter that veers far from the Hughes murder and cover-up to detail a host of other tangentially related CPD and Mayor du jour scandals. Perhaps the project should have been several of these stories instead of just one--it is unlikely that the people who obstructed justice so glibly in this story only did it this one time (as a subsidiary, and related, murder story within suggests).
A quick read that should have been even quicker.… (mais)