The Shooting Gallery: A Detective Yablonsky Mystery

by Joseph Trigoboff

Book Overview

In Joseph Trigoboff's debut novel The Bone Orchard, the world was introduced to Detective Alvin Yablonsky and the accolades were unanimous. The New York Times Book Review chose The Bone Orchard as one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585745472
• ISBN13: 9781585745470
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Very Good New York Crime Story

Trigoboff tells a very good story. He's got a way of describing the streets, the monumental setting of New York City, and the criminal underbelly that learks beneath the survice. In the Shooting Gallery, he conveys a very compelling story. Along with the criminal action and the description of big city corruption, Trigoboff weaves a large amount of biting and incisive social commentary into the story. The book is also rich in black humor, with some very amusing scenes.NYPD Alvin Yablonsky returns in this book. He is faced with the political murder of a reporter, one who has crusaded against powerful interests for years, in the employ of a liberal paper. The cities limosine liberal establishment is outraged, and storm clouds soon surround the investigation. Yablonsky is faced with a political administration that doesn't exactly want the case solved, a shadowy force willing to kill anyone close to the case, and a group of liberals that don't trust the police at all. All together, it makes for great modern urban noir.The only reason I didn't give it the full 5 stars is because I found the actual mystery fairly obvious, and I figured it out almost right away. Still, it was a very entertaining read.

Enormously Entertaining

Trigaboff has indeed done it again!! A terrific read.

By a tightly disciplined mystery writer

Alvin Yablonsky is a New York detective assigned to investigate the murder of a Skinny McPherson, a reporter for "The Village Guardian", a left-wing newspaper with strong connections to the Big Apple's elite of among the literary set and their judicial allies. Yablonsky runs afoul of the corrupt "powers that be" in the drug infested East Village neighbor. It takes a tough minded, quick thinking, street savvy cop like Yablonsky to go where he must go and do what needs to be done to identify and then bring the guilty to what justice can be done under the circumstances. The Shooting Gallery confirms Joseph Trigoboff's as a tightly disciplined mystery writer who plays hard but fair with his readers and his characters. Also highly recommended is Trigoboff's earlier Detective Alvin Yablonsky novel The Bone Orchard.

Richly Textured, Brilliantly Written

Joe Trigoboff explored both the emotions and driving motives of his complicated characters and the outer world of crime and punishment, to create an almost mythic saga. The story lingers long after the book is closed.

trigoboff does it again

excellent sequel to the bone orchard