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Cranks and Shadows Author(s) K.C. Constantine Country 
USALanguage English Genre(s) Novel Publisher The Mysterious Press of Warner Books Publication date 1995 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 314 ISBN ISBN 0-89296-543-6 OCLC Number 31131489 Preceded by Bottom Liner Blues Followed by Good Sons Cranks and Shadows is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).
Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.
The novel opens with Balzic being told to lay off five members of his police department. Balzic confronts members of the Conemaugh Foundation, a clandestine organization out to seize control of Rocksburg.
It is the eleventh book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.
References
- Constantine, K.C. (2002). Saving Room for Dessert. New York: The Mysterious Press of Warner Books. ISBN 0-89296-763-3.
Novels by K.C. Constantine Mario Balzic series The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972) • The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself (1973) • The Blank Page (1974) • A Fix Like This (1975) • The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) • Always a Body To Trade (1983) • Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985) • Joey's Case (1988) • Sunshine Enemies (1990) • Bottom Liner Blues (1993) • Cranks and Shadows (1995) • Good Sons (1996) • Family Values (1997) • Brushback (novel) (1998) • Blood Mud (1999)Other novels Grievance (novel) (2000) • Saving Room for Dessert (2002)Categories:- 1995 novels
- Novels by K. C. Constantine
- American crime novels
- Novels set in Pennsylvania
- Crime novel stubs
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