A Picture of Her Tombstone

by Thomas Lipinski

Book Overview

Things aren't going well for private investigator Carroll Dorsey. Because of the notoriety arising from his last big case, the Pittsburgh detective's business has dried up, and his on-again, off-again... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312143907
• ISBN13: 9780312143909
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Real Pittsburgh, like it or not

Lipinski captures Pittsburgh in a way that few writers capture their setting. I lived in the neighborhoods Lipinski writes about. He gets it right. In A Picture Of Her Tombstone, Lipinski shows us a Lawrenceville that is indicitive of so many American urban ethnic neighborhoods. Rich in culture and tradition, but giving way to drugs and despair.Carroll Dorsey is believable because he is flawed. He makes mistakes and lets his errors bother him. Lipinski's other characters are very real, too. He has mastered, in this work, the task of conveying what motivates the characters in the main plot and the sub-plot and manages to tie everything up in the end (while letting you know there is more to come...like all good serial mystery novelists).If you like mysteries, you love Lipinski's work.

A gritty and amusing tale of ethnic Pittsburgh. I loved it.

Dorsey is not as tough as Boston's Spenser,but who could be? Parker made him (Spenser) invincible.Instead Carroll Dorsey is a more pedestrian (tough yet certainly vulnerable - and I think more realistic) kind of guy trying to make it as a p.i.on the South Side. His life, his friends, his adventures, his descriptions of Pittsburgh all ring true. Pittsburghers, both present and former,will love this, and the other Dorsey adventures.Mr. Lipinski, please continue.

Great atmosphere!

I grew up in the neighborhoods described by Thomas Lipinski in A Picture of Her Tombstone. His accounts of day to day life in the ethnic inner city are right on the money. Took me on a trip down memory lane. Especially enjoyed the references to the Catholic schools which I attended. A fast moving book.