Author's Note:
THE BLIND
PIG is my second published novel. I wrote it in 1976, in Missoula, Montana. I was
living with Cinda Purdy, a beautiful woman who died in an airplane accident near Butte, in
1980. By the time the book came out, 1978, we were living in Helena and our son, Devin,
was born not long after (my first child, Sarah, called "Buzzy", had been born to
an earlier marriage, in 1970.) In this novel, I used a lot of material I had gathered in
my wild and reckless youth, in Detroit, when I used to frequent the after-hours joints, or
"blind pigs." The story concerns two young men who get involved in a gun-running
scheme with some Cuban expatriate counter-revolutionaries. I’d encountered some of
these people in my after-hours life.
My
editor at Random House, Barbe Hammer, was very keen on this novel and we felt that it went
a good ways toward establishing a mystery series. It got excellent reviews, but we were
disappointed that it didn’t garner any nominations for best mystery novel, from the
Mystery Writers of America. But it did get a good paperback sale and was picked up by the
Mystery Book Club. It also got several overseas publications.
Mulheisen is a little better
established here. I think it holds up well. I hope you enjoy it.
Jon A. Jackson
Synopsis
Guns. Everyone has one. The good guys. The bad guys. The guys
in between. Mulheisen can't see the fascination, but he's made a career of cleaning up the
messes. Now he's on a case that began when a cop shot a prowler, two hit men shot a
jukebox, and a "delicious kumquat" of a woman used her own brand of ammo on
Mulheisen in the after-hours world of blind pigs and jazz joints. |
