Hit on the House: Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries

By Jon A. Jackson

Book Overview

In Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as an unqualifiably brilliant novel, Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to whack Big Sid Sedlacek--a mob heavy who's been on the take. Picked up as a possible witness, Hal switches IDs with a drunk and walks out of jail before Mulheisen can question him. Soon other Mob higher-ups begin to meet bloody ends, and a woman from Mulheisen's past turns up married to an abrasive computer entrepreneur with a suspicious number of friends in the business. As the investigation gets ever more unwieldy, the body count mounts, while the millions of dollars skimmed by Big Sid and his unnamed partners--including, maybe, Hal--stay missing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802137059
• ISBN13: 9780802137050
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent cop novel.

I am a huge crime-fiction buff, but this is the first "Fang Mulheisen" novel I've read. There is something unique and compelling about it. It's moody, almost dreary, with a depressed main character who lives in Detroit and is trying to solve the murders of some squalid mob thugs. There's not much of a mystery. All I can say is, as soon as I finished it I went out and bought the first one in the series. There's something sly, humorous, and human in it that is very appealing.