Blind Spot

Lieutenant Kerrigan Mystery #1

by Joseph Harrington

Lieutenant F. X. Kerrigan is a very good detective. His new assignment is to review what evidence that led to the conviction, for second-degree murder, of attractive Laurie Callender, now serving a sentence of twenty years to life. The evidence seems overshelmingly the murdered man had been her lover, his body was found in her apartment, her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. But Kerrian re-examines a tragedy some eight months old from mid-Manhattan where the murder occurred to a Greenwich Village night club, from a First Avenue supermarket to an apartment in Queens to a Connecticut town. A curious story begins to take shape and a life-like mystery unfolds.

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

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Reviews

[AC · Rating 4.75 out of 5]

Second in his Kerrigan trilogy, this is another very tightly and finely written police procedural of the purest type. The first half of the book is constructed as a lengthy police report that Kerrigan is reading; and the second half, of his investigation pursuant to it. Again, the human element and Harrington’s warmth and human sympathy are in the foreground.

[Ethan Hulbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Blind Spot was very interesting. I started off absolutely hating it, to be honest, as the protagonist just seemed to read old casefiles that went on forever. But as he started being active and tracking down things left out of the original investigation, it became wonderful. It was a mix of a murder mystery and a demonstration on good sound police work. I love how the investigator never even met the main character and how it was just him doing his job. This book was really delicious and I can't wait to read it again in a few years.

[Sarah Rigg · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another book I only know I read in 1986 because I mentioned it in my journal. I'd just gotten my library card that allowed me to check stuff out of the adult section of the library, and I read a lot of mysteries for adults at this period in my early teens.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: Lieutenant Kerrigan's new assignment is to review the evidence in the murder conviction of Laurie Callender, now serving twenty to life.