false 2962057 3 <p>Michael Harvey&#8217;s sizzling follow-up to <i>The Chicago Way</i> (&#8220;A wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a major new voice&#8221; &#8212;Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.<br><br>Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City&#8217;s answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago&#8217;s past. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The trail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago&#8217;s North Side. Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer to one of Chicago&#8217;s most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places he&#8217;d rather not go: specifically, City Hall&#8217;s fabled fifth floor, where the mayor is feeling the heat. Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night<b> </b>Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.<i><br><br>The Fifth Floor</i> is fast-stepping, intricately woven suspense, rich with the lore and atmosphere of a great city. A marvelous successor to Harvey&#8217;s critically acclaimed debut.</p> 2991567 book 26 8 2008 The Fifth Floor total:105|5:21|4:36|3:40|2:7|1:1| 105 384 175 35 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 2 false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 13:49:21 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 20:16:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 3 0 false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 13:49:04 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:32:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Thu Dec 04 20:29:24 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 10:10:57 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 20:29:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 5 0 false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 08:00:36 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 07:44:25 -0700 2009
It starts when Michael is contacted by Janet, an ex-girlfriend and is asked...more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 0 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 15:31:47 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:31:47 -0800 2009
This was an interesting book but not quite as good, in my opinion, as his debut novel, The Chicago Way. In this book, PI Michael Kelly is hired by an old girl...more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 3 1 false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 16:39:09 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 19:46:20 -0700 2008 6603173 1 1 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6603173-the-fifth-floor 5 0 false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 12:51:40 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 06:27:17 -0700 2009
Janet Woods is an old frie...more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 5 0 false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 07:07:09 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 16:05:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 21:11:22 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 16:28:53 -0700 2009 1 The Fifth Floor is quite as good as Harvey’s debut novel, The Chicago Way. I found Michael, Harvey’s detective, to be every bit as engaging as he was in the first novel, but I wasn’t especially fond of anyone else. Since the private investigator was up to his eyes in Chicago ...more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 10:48:28 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 08:42:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 23 08:12:44 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 08:19:14 -0700 2009 like Michael Harvey's style: noirish and old-fashioned and set in Chicago. Nothing too gruesome, and certainly no detailed forensic discussions--just trench-coated, slouch-hatted, cigar-wielding (one imagines) shoe-leather mysteries. The only possible criticism I can conceive may just be i...more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 3 0 false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 12:43:09 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 12:43:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 13:36:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 13:39:09 -0700 2009 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 4 0 false Sat Nov 22 06:17:07 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 06:18:51 -0800 2008 5375095 0307386295 9780307386298 14 3 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5375095.The_Fifth_Floor 3 0 false Thu Nov 19 17:57:33 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 17:58:42 -0800 2009 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 3 0 false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 13:02:40 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 13:08:23 -0800 2008 2962057 0307266877 9780307266873 90 31 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962057.The_Fifth_Floor 3 0 false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 16:59:49 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:21:54 -0800 2008
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