What you missed:Private eye Nick Acropolis finally meets Sheriff Archer outside of the Sawyer County Courthouse in McKinley. Archer asks for the pictures Nick took in the impounded semi trailer. Nick hands over a roll of film, and the sheriff says he’s also heard the investigator is looking for the missing son of Maddy Miller, […]
Jack Clark
Jack Clark's first Nick Acropolis novel, Westerfield's Chain (St. Martin's
Press), has just been named a finalist for a Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America.
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The highway side
What you missed: Private eye Nick Acropolis is sent to McKinley by attorney Shelly Michalowski to investigate the case of a trucker charged with smuggling cocaine. Nick meets a truck stop waitress, Peggy Miller, who hires him to look for her missing son, Billy. Nick then stumbles upon the trucker’s semi trailer. The police have […]
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The highway side
What you missed:Private eye Nick Acropolis is sent to McKinley by attorney Shelly Michalowski to investigate the case of a trucker charged with smuggling cocaine. The trucker, Jesse Lopez, proclaims his innocence, but the judge seems to believe otherwise, warning Lopez that a guilty verdict would result in a sentence of 30 to 120 years. […]
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The Highway Side
What you missed: Private eye Nick Acropolis is sent to McKinley by attorney Shelly Michalowski to investigate the case of a trucker charged with smuggling cocaine. A truck stop waitress hires Nick to look for her missing son. Nick then stumbles upon the trucker’s semi trailer. The police have emptied a secret compartment, but Nick […]
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The Highway Side
What you missed: Private eye Nick Acropolis is sent to McKinley to investigate the case of a trucker charged with smuggling cocaine. A truck stop waitress then hires him to look for her missing son, Billy. Nick stumbles upon his original client’s truck. The police have emptied a secret compartment, but Nick finds four small […]
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The Highway Side
What you missed: Private eye Nick Acropolis is sent to McKinley to investigate the case of a trucker charged with smuggling cocaine. A truck stop waitress then hires him to look for her missing son. Nick examines his client’s truck. A secret compartment is empty, but Nick finds four small bundles hidden within a pile […]
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The Highway Side
FOUR I started out on foot, me and my trusty galoshes, but I soon went back for my Oldsmobile. The place was huge; trucks were everywhere, acres of trucks. Trucks fueling up, trucks waiting in line to fuel up, trucks pulling up to the scales. Trucks backing into parking spots, making wide turns, row after […]
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ONE Shelly Michalowski’s eyes were a shimmering, contact-lens blue. Her hair was bleach blond, and she could flip it with near perfect control, wink, go from a smile to a leer–and never once stop talking. She was a five-foot-two-inch perpetual-motion machine, and every bit of it was fake. I wasn’t sure whether she knew this, […]
