The Man Who Murdered Himself

The Allerton Avenue Precinct Novels #7

by Richard Fliegel

The posh, idyllic Care Clinic promises to cure such twentieth-century afflictions as eating disorders, substance abuse, and low self-esteem. But when Shelley Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley - tow former detectives from the Bronx - begin to investigate the whereabouts of one of the clinics' most loyal patients, they're in for some shocking treatments.

A maniacal director browbeats patients and staff alike. A beautiful blonde picnics with a chimp and listens to Disney songs on a crank phonograph. And a bunch calling themselves The Church of the Unflagging Eye worship the television set and everything on it. For Lownkopf and Greeley it would be just another Missing Persons case - if people weren't suddenly turning up dead. Now the two detectives must solve a horrible killing, before murder becomes the clinic's nastiest - and most stubborn - habit.

Genres: Mystery

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

Richard Fliegel grew up in the Bronx, in Soundview, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Avenue and Bronx Park East. He went to Bronx Science, and when he didn't he went to the Botanical Gardens. At Buffalo he studied poetry with Robert Creeley and soap opera with Leslie Fiedler. He moved to Bank Street, West 75th, Washington Heights, and woke up one morning in Santa Monica -- when he flew back to read his play, The Judgment of Shika Levi, at the 92nd Street Y. He earned his Ph.D. with W. Ross Winterowd at USC, wrote a bit for TV, and set some books back in the Bronx. The NY Times reviewed one, Liz Smith quoted another, and he kept writing one after another. By daylight he can be found at USC Dornsife, directing programs, creating curriculum, researching critical thinking, doing a little teaching, and writing. Still writing.