Frank Lentricchia

An Eliot Conte Mystery';Vivid and unnerving . . . Eliot Conte is an instant original.' The Washington PostSomeone's shooting dogs in Utica . . . Ex-PI Eliot Conte (';part Mike Hammer and part William S. Burroughs,' according to The Washington Post) thought he'd escaped the sordid underworld of long-established Mafia...

Introducing a gritty new detective series set in the bleak hinterlands of upstate new YorkWashed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he flamed out of an academic career when he hung the Provost of UCLA out a window, and he...