Country USA Publisher Saturday Review Press Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1973 Page count 156 OCLC 746089 | Language English Publication date 1973 Pages 156 Genre Novel | |
Preceded by The Rocksburg Railroad Murders Similar Good Sons, Always a Body to Trade, Cranks and Shadows, Saving Room for Dessert, Joey's Case | ||
The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1970s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt 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.