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The first novel about Baltimore homicide detective Devlin Rourke, a good cop plagued by Sherlock Holmes’s curse while fighting mobsters, self-righteous reformers, and – years before the term was coined – a serial murder.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

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James Grady

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James Grady is a longtime author of thrillers, police procedural and espionage novels. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for United States Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana as an staff member.

From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.

James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.

In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.

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