The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself

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The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself
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First edition
Author K. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Saturday Review Press
Publication date
1973
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages156
ISBN 0-8415-0266-8
OCLC 746089
Preceded by The Rocksburg Railroad Murders  
Followed by The Blank Page  

The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine. [1] [2] The novel is set in 1970s Rocksburg, a fictional blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Mario Balzic 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.

As the novel opens, Balzic and Lt. Harry Minyon of the state police are hunting pheasant at the Rocksburg Rod and Gun Club when, after Minyon's dog bites Balzic, the dog uncovers a piece of human bone that shows signs of having been hacked apart.

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

References

  1. ↑ Adams, Phoebe Lou (January 1, 1974). "The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 1, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Criminals At Large". The New York Times. December 23, 1973. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved June 1, 2023.


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