Created by David Everson
(1941-99)
“My name is Robert Miles and I’m a private eye with a difference. My mean streets are the corridors of power in the Illinois capitol. Call what I do for the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives opposition research.”
Whatever you call it, author David Everson’s political savvy makes for some eye-opening detective fiction. And ROBERT “BOBBY” MILES himself is a likable enough guy, an amicably divorced former minor league ball player turned slacker private eye with a healthy disregard for the entire political process he serves, and a taste for fast-food and bad puns. But he often finds himself working for Illinois Speaker of the State House “Tree” Courtney, which gets him involved in all sorts of political shenanigans.
His first two novels, Recount (1987) and Rebound (1988) were both nominated for Shamus awards.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Writer David Everson lived just outside Springfield on marginal city land. A political science professor, he “probably taught at the old Sangamon State University which was absorbed into the University of Illinois campus system sometime later,” muses reader John Larsen. He took postgraduate study in Illinois politics hanging out at the General Assembly.
UNDER OATH
- “I can’t say much about the writing as I didn’t finish the novel, though for all the geographical name dropping and veiled references to Speaker Michael Madigan (still in the news at 81 before the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois), the writing style seemed just a little over the top to me”
— John Larsen on Rematch - “”Witty . . . Entertaining.”
— Publishers Weekly on Suicide Squeeze
NOVELS
- Recount (1987) | Buy this book
- Rebound (1988) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Rematch (1989) | Buy this book
- Instant Replay (1989)
- A Capital Killing (1990) | Buy this book
- Suicide Squeeze (1991) | Buy this book
- False Profits (1992) | Buy this book
SHORT STORIES
- “Catnap” (1991, Cat Crimes)
- “Operation: Trojan Horse” (1991, Solved)
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Their Kind of Town
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Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
