Death in the Steel City

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CENTER Sins of the Father Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and for some a heritage of crime punishment and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey the son of a powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets where he once played as a boy Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back as he makes a living in the city hes always called home. But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish gangster to search for the mans long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life times and disappearance of a magnificent woman with a Lena Horne smile he finds himself immersed in the most agonizing case of his career. For as he winds his way through broken families broken neighborhoods and broken promises to the scene of a horrifying triple homicide Dorsey is forced to confront a crime carried out fifty years ago--one that reaches far too close to home...Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and for some a heritage of crime punishment and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey the son of a powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets where he once played as a boy Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back as he makes a living in the city hes always called home. But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish gangster to search for the mans long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life times and disappearance of a magnificent woman with a Lena Horne smile he finds himself immersed in the most agonizing case of his career. For as he winds his way through broken families broken neighborhoods and broken promises to the scene of a horrifying triple homicide Dorsey is forced to confront a crime carried out fifty years ago---one that reaches far too close to home...Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and for some a heritage of crime punishment and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey the son of a powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets where he once played as a boy Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back as he makes a living in the city hes always called home. But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish gangster to search for the mans long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life times and disappearance of a magnificent woman with a Lena Horne smile he finds himself immersed in the most agonizing case of his career. For as he winds his way through broken families broken neighborhoods and broken promises to the scene of a horrifying triple homicide Dorsey is forced to confront a crime carried out fifty years ago---one that reaches far too close to home...