Always a Body to Trade

Always a Body To Trade[1] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Always a Body To Trade
AuthorK. C. Constantine
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDavid R. Godine
Publication date
1983
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages248
ISBN978-0-87923-458-4
OCLC9111533
Preceded byThe Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes 
Followed byUpon Some Midnights Clear 

Mario Balzic[2] is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.

The novel tells the story of a double robbery in two identical apartments, rented but hardly ever used by a Pittsburgh drug dealer who's clean with the law. A young woman is found shot dead on the street, she cannot be identified but her murder has all the appearances of a professional hit. The new mayor of Rocksburg is near hysteria, and he smears the case all over Balzic, who not only has to solve the murder but teach his nosy new boss the not-so-plain facts of police work.

It is the sixth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.

Reference list

Novel Page on Publisher's Website

References
  1. "Always a Body to Trade". David R. Godine, Publisher. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  2. "The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #1)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
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