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Mass Market Paperback Fall-Down Artist Book

ISBN: 0380730626

ISBN13: 9780380730629

Fall-Down Artist

(Book #1 in the Carroll Dorsey Series)

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Insurance fraud investigation--trying to outsmart liars and cheats looking for a fast buck by scamming the system--may not be very glamorous, but these days in Pittsburgh, it's food on the table for P. 1. Carroll Dorsey. And with the economy headed south, fake fall-downs have turned into something of a working-class growth industry. Thing is, though, the more Dorsey looks, the more he sees. This phony-injury epidemic is bigger than it seems, and it...

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5 ratings

A good read for a lazy day

Thomas Lipinski is not only a good professor (I had him as Professor for a creative writing class at Edinboro University) but a good writer. At the end of the semester he gave the class an autographed copy of his first book published "The Fall Down Artist". I took it only because it was free, it didn't seem like my type of book. I later picked it up to read only to judge his writing ability since he spent 15 weeks judging mine, to my amazement I really enjoyed his book. It took a few chapters for things to grab my attention and keep me reading. The name of the book, along with the book description does the book an injustice, with a better name and description I am sure people would be grabbing for his book as a first pick to read. Also, a someone who grew up in and around Pittsburgh, I was very familiar with most, if not all of the locations that he used in his book, and I was able to identify the locations fairly easily. If you are from or around the "Burgh" this is a must read.

An Exciting Book With A Great Ending!

Carrol Dorsey is an investigator who likes to do his job and doit right! It was such fun to open the pages of this book and climbinside Carroll Dorsey's Buick; from the very first chapter, we were busy travelling along the weel described streets of Pittsburgh trying to unravel this mystery. Thomas Lipinski will take you into the dark alleys and bars of Pittsburgh and then reveal the corruption of high powered people. Lipinski will take you places and excite you as you see the city through a different but realistic lens. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next!I sipped coffee with Carrol Dorsey as he read through his office files and would later find myself sloshing down Rolling Rock beer with him as I anticipated what was to come!

An Exciting Book With A Great Ending!

Carroll Dorsey emerges as an investigator who likes to do his job and do it right! It was such fun to open the pages of this book and climb inside Carroll Dorsey's Buick. From the very first chapter, we were busy travelling along the well described streets of Pittsburgh trying to unravel this mystery.Thomas Lipinski will take you into the dark alleys and bars of Pittsburgh and then reveal the corruption of high powered people. Lipinski will take you places and excite you as you see the city through a different but realistic lens. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next!I sipped coffee with Carroll Dorsey as he read through his office files and would later find myself "sloshing" down a Rolling Rock beer with him as I anticipated what was to come!Realizing the full involvement of his close family member left me yelling out and throwing this book against the wall; what an ending!

if you like well-done mysteries, you'll like this book!

You'll probably not hear anything about Lipinski on Oprah's show, or see full page adverts for his writing...more's the pity.This guy writes solid, intelligent stories populated by believable people.If you want a book that will entertain and demonstrate the mystery genre, get this or one of Lipinski's other Carroll Dorsey stories.

An extremely memorable mystery!

In The Fall Down Artist, Thomas Lipinski offers us not only an exciting and ultimately satisfying mystery, but also insight into the collapse of the steel industry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through his extremely moralistic and highly loveable character Carroll Dorsey, we are taken on an insider's journey into the heart and soul of southwestern Pennsylvania. PI Dorsey is a complex man with an uncanny ability of coming off as someone the reader has known, and liked, all his life. This is a very dramatic, moody, heart-felt work that should not be missed by any mystery lover or anyone with an interest in the trials and tribulations the collapse of big business can have on an area and its people.
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