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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1972

Pages
  
306

Originally published
  
1972

Page count
  
306

Country
  
United States of America

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Publisher
  
Saturday Review Press

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-8415-0180-7

Author
  
K. C. Constantine

Genre
  
Novel

OCLC
  
589010

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The Rocksburg Railroad Murders is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine. The book is the first in the 17-volume Rocksburg series, which introduces Mario Balzic as a detective working to solve crimes in Rocksburg, a fictional blue-collar Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Plot summary

The novel opens with John Andrasko being found dead on a station platform late at night in Rocksburg. Andrasko was on his way to work at a local steel plant when someone beat him to death with a Coke bottle, so bad that he could only be identified by his wallet. Mario Balzic, the local Chief of Police, had known Andrasko all his life. Balzic starts an investigation into his death and is soon convinced he knows who the murderer is, but persuading the local district attorney and state troopers in the absence of any concrete evidence and the context of local rivalries is another matter. Which is a cause of major anxiety as Balzic is certain that if he’s not apprehended he’ll kill again.

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The Rocksburg Railroad Murders Wikipedia