Nothing Sure but Death and Taxes - and Baseball

Historical mystery novel recreaates 1938 Chicago in the post-Caone years. When a reform candidate for mayor is murdered, Tribune crime repoter Steve Malek doesn't believe it's a mob hit.

Author Robert Goldsborough's book, THE YEAR DIZ CANE TO TOWN, was a new release at PendulumPress.com when the new interleague schedule was announced. What could be more fitting than the New York Yankees return to Wrigley Field June 6-8 to play the Cubs for the first time since 1938, the year Goldsborough chose as the setting for his historical mystery novel, the year Dizzy Dean was traded to the Cubs and pitched for them in the World Series.

THE YEAR DIZ CANE TO TOWN, downloadable from www.PendulumPress.com of Minneapolis, is an intriguing mystery set against the background of the post-Capone crime syndicate and the powerful Kelly-Nash political machine. Steve Malek, a crime reporter at the Chicago Tribune, senses his big story when a reform candidate for mayor is gunned down by an unknown assailant. The police and media write it off as a mob hit, but Malek has reason to believe otherwise and follows a clue from the dead man's past to its deadly present.

"Snap Malek, the 'detective' in THE YEAR DIZ CAME TO TOWN, isnt strictly a detective. Hes a savvy, street-smart Chicago newspaperman. In 1938, Chicago with its five daily newspapers is still the world-famous city of Al Capone, the St. Valentines Day massacre, and machine politics. The era and the city are wonderfully realistic. Malek interacts with real persons-Helen Hayes, Al Capone, Dizzy Dean, Dick Dailey (Chicagos future mayor), and others. Goldsborough vividly recreates not just a time and a place; he creates a fascinating new kind of detective," says Marbin Green, Chicago writer and attorney

Goldsborough, an ardent Cubs fan, was a reporter and editor fat the Chicago Tribune for 17 years. He has also published seven Nero Wolfe novels written with the approval of the estate of the late Rex Stout. Goldsborough lives and works in the Chicago area. This is his first electronic book.