The Irish Sports Pages: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) | Les Roberts

The Irish Sports Pages: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) | Les Roberts | One of the best Milan Jacovich Mysterys and I've read them all

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	The Irish Sports Pages: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (Milan Jacovich Mysteries) Les Roberts Gray & Company Publishers, 2006 - 271 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's private eye extraordinaire, gets the usual PI's run of cases -- checking on insurance claims, looking for missing persons, validating a job applicant's credentials. But now and again, along comes the unusual case -- one that is really out of Milan's sphere, but which he takes on from a sense of justice, for personal reasons, and even if the client can't afford to pay.

There's nothing pro bono about Milan's current case. His client is a woman of status and wealth. But it is definitely on the personal side. It seems that Judge Maureen Hartigan has a serious problem that she wants to kept quiet. And since her daughter Cathleen and Milan have had an off-again-on-again friendship, which only teeters on the edge of something more, she asks Cathleen to call him. Judge Hartigan, a woman of impeccable reputation, has unwittingly given refuge to a scam artist. Through her, Cathleen had become involved with the man, and all because Cathleen's cousin Hugh had been a sucker. It happened in a familiar way: The man came into an Irish bar, made a beeline for Hugh, who was drinking alone and a little in his cups, told him that he was just off the plane from Ireland, and that his luggage, containing not only his clothes but his passport and wallet, was lost; he had no clean clothes, no money, no identification, no credit cards. Could Hugh help him until the luggage was found? A fellow Irishman, thought Hugh, even to one a couple of generations removed from the Auld Sod? Sure.

Judge Hartigan didn't expect to recover the money this "Brian McFall" had stolen. She wanted revenge. It was Milan's job to find the man. Then he was saved the trouble when McFall turned up shot to death. The missing-person case became a homicide, one that Lieutenant McHargue, Milan's nemesis, warned him to keep out of. Milan didn't heed the warning.. He wanted to finish what he started, he wanted to help Cathleen and her mother. What he did not want was to become the target of a killer. But in Milan's business, you can't have everything, now can you?

Readers, however, will get what they want: an engaging, thrill-packed story with a number of characters they would like to meet -- and a few they wouldn't.

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Well, Gosh!

Maybe there's something wrong with me (many people would wholeheartedly agree), but I liked Les' newest book. It didn't tax my brain and I read it over one weekend. Milan Jacovich has become like an old pair of shoes--the one's you keep going back to when another pair beats up your feet and you're dying for something familiar and comfortable. There's no stomach-churning gore, the sex is so-so, and the plots aren't revealed in the first few pages. Les enjoys writing mysteries and making people think. As long as he keeps writing, I'll keep reading his books.

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One of the best Milan Jacovich Mysterys and I've read them all

This is by far one of the best Milan Jacovich novels I've read. Needless, to say I'm a big fan of the Milan Jacovich novels and all of Les Roberts writings. As always the case involves a friend who needs help. This person's mother just happens to be a prominent Judge in Cleveland. During the investigation he goes into your typical Irish Pub. You'll find a pub like this in every city in the US. You can visualize yourself sitting at the bar as Milan walks in. Later on in the investigation Milan needs some help from Victor Gamari, the heir appartent to the mob in Cleveland which causes some problems of conscience for Milan. Milan meets a nice girl who works at City Hall during this investigation and I hope this romance takes off in the next book. It's time Milan stops dating these upper class snob types. Get him a girl that is just as comfortable in a fancy restaurant as a local pub sitting at the bar drinking a beer with him. Of course, when Milan finally figures it out, he's goes in like gang busters instead of waiting for the police and almost get's himself killed but two others do die in the process.

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Another Great Addition To The Milan Yackovich Series

I cannot say too much about an author who has become my favorite. I stopped reading mysteries many years ago and then discovered the Milan Jakovich novels (my first ten years of life were spent in Cleveland and I was curious) and the Saxon novels set it LA. No other detective writer makes his characters as human as Les Roberts does and he is one of the few authors who causes me to go back and reread what he has written. He is articulate, he is concise, and he knows who and what he is writing about. This is as true of The Irish Sports Pages as of all his books. I would encourage mystery fans to read all his books and challenge non mystery fans with the belief that one Les Roberts book will get them hooked on all that he has written. Believe me, I went to old book stores and the net once I found I had missed the first few and the prices were well worth it.

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Milan Goes Irish

This is the 13th book in the Milan Jacovich series, which is set in Cleveland and once again showcases the city to its best advantage while Milan does his investigative work. Milan is a middle-aged, clear-thinking, single and sensible private investigator who always seems to get things done with a minimum of fuss.

Although there?s a minimum of fuss, there?s still plenty to enjoy about this latest book in the series. Milan explores the unfamiliar territory of Irish bars when hired to track down a conman posing as an Irishman who is new to the country, He preys on Irish ex-pats, taking them into his confidence before disappearing with a modest haul. He oversteps the mark when his prey is Judge Maureen Hartigan and she demands a chance at a shot of revenge, using Milan to find him. Things become a bit more complicated when it is revealed that the judge hasn?t been completely forthright about what was stolen. When Milan works out what some of the items were, their significance changes the tone of his investigation completely.

This is another enjoyable private investigator story, which I would term as semi-hardboiled. It?s not going to offend any sensibilities with Milan remaining a gentleman throughout the entire case. As it?s part of a series, I would recommend that a couple of the earlier books could be read to give you a bit of an insight into Milan and the other regular characters.

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Cleveland PI novelist back again

Les Roberts has really put Cleveland on the map over the years with his fine novels. This book maintains that tradition, and Milan remains one of the more unique characters in private eye fiction. Pick this one up if you've ever been to Cleveland or if you enjoy a classic private eye tale. Roberts is a writer to be followed closely.

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