Product Overview
October, 1943. Detective Merl Cahill and his partner, Fish Biederman, have got a good thing going. Chicago in 1943 is a very lucrative place to be one of Chicago's finest. Merl Cahill is not only one of Chicago's finest he's also one of Chicago's largest - an ex-Chicago Bears' lineman standing six-seven and weighing two hundred eighty pounds. He might be considered one Chicago's meanest if any one of his collars stayed alive long enough to press charges.
When a dead girl is found in an alley behind a grocery store, it's Merl and Fish who get the call. After a second girl turns up, so does the heat. A mug like this would usually be no match for these two, but this killer is different - colder, smarter, with a warped psyche that defies all attempts at unraveling. All they can do is wait for him to strike again.
A female detective promoted to the squad does little for morale and as the tension mounts, it becomes clear that the killer isn't finished. Not by a long shot.
A love story, a hard-bitten potboiler with twists, slugs, roscoes, and more than a few belly laughs, Dear Priscilla is also a look back at Chicago in the early '40s - WWII, Maxwell Street, the Union Stock Yards, the Times, Chicago Bears football - and populated with some of Schweizer's best characters to date. All this makes for a comic noir thriller that you won't want to miss.
Note: Mark Schweizer is known for his cozy, tongue-in-cheek St. Germaine mysteries. Please be aware that although Dear Priscilla has a significant amount of humor, it is a hard-edged police thriller.
