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Jack Clark

Born: 1949 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Jack Clark has lived and worked in Chicago his entire life.

Biography: Clark is an award-winning journalist, an acclaimed novelist, a singer-songwriter and a Chicago cab driver. He wrote for the weekly paper the ''Chicago Reader'' years ago, but left journalism for the world of writing fiction and picking up fares. Clark has been driving cabs for 30 years and written three books. His story caught the eye of ''Fresh Air'' contributor Dave Davies, who drove a cab in Philadelphia before entering journalism.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: jackclarksemail@gmail.com
Website: http://jackclark.info/
Jack Clark on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=jack+clark


Selected Titles

Dancing on graves
ISBN: 1475254393 OCLC: 840109609

CreateSpace, [North Charleston, South Carolina] : 2012, ©2012.

Chicago private eye Nick Acropolis is back with a new adventure. Billy Mansfield has been on Death Row for more than 20 years, and Nick helped put him there in his days as a Chicago homicide detective. Now he's asked to find evidence to free him. Could Billy Mansfield really be innocent?

Highway side
ISBN: 147518218X OCLC: 840109612

CreateSpace, [North Charleston, South Carolina] : 2012, ©2012.

Nobody's angel
ISBN: 9780857683502 OCLC: 679820724

Hard Case Crime, New York : 2010, ©1996.

Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles decides to do something about two serial killers--one targeting prostitutes, the other cab drivers--at large in the city when his friend Lenny is murdered and he finds a teenage prostitute left for dead.

Nobody's angel /
ISBN: 0843963271 OCLC: 503075184

Hard Case Crime, New York, NY : 2010.

Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles decides to do something about two serial killers--one targeting prostitutes, the other cab drivers--at large in the city when his friend Lenny is murdered and he finds a teenage prostitute left for dead.

Westerfield's chain /
ISBN: 031228960X OCLC: 49576154

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, New York : 2002.

While searching her father's drugstore for clues to his disappearance, medical student Becky Westerfield encounters private detective Nick Acropolis, and when they join forces to find Becky's father, they stumble into a massive welfare fraud scheme.

 

 

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