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1764. EAGLE, JOHN.
The Hoodlums, [by] John Eagle. New York: Avon Publications, Inc.; 575 Madison Avenue, [1953.] 139p.1765. EATOCK, MARJORIE, 1927-Kirk is an ex-con who will do anything for a buck, but he expects better of a wife. What he gets is beauty with few morals and a connection to Chicago's underworld. The more he learns about her, the closer he is pushed to the brutality that is the undoing of them both.
1766. EATOCK, MARJORIE, 1927-Over the Rainbow, [by] Marjorie Eatock. [New York:] Kensington Publishing Corp.; Zebra Books, [1993.] 479p.
Marian Carson is in her mid-fifties, divorced, and secure in her job with a national insurance company, but still she feels restless. When a storm devastates a rural Illinois community and Marian is sent to the area to process claims, she meets Don Worth and begins to come to grips with her feelings.
Publishers Weekly, 12/7/1993, p. 58.
Promises to Keep, [by] Marjorie Eatock. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp.; Zebra Books, [1994.] 507p.1767. EATOCK, MARJORIE, 1927-Life has not been kind to Eleanor Wright, but she is content running an antique shop in a small Illinois town near St. Louis. Then her previously silent business partner demands a larger stake in the business at the same time a love interest intensifies, and Eleanor finds herself in a bit of a quandry.
See No Evil, [by] Marjorie Eatock. New York: Walker and Company; A Judy Sullivan Book, [1985.] 159p.1768. EATOCK, MARJORIE, 1927-Linda Pietra has a full life in the small town of Penfield, Illinois, what with her job at the Farm Bureau, her friends, and her hobby--maintaining and flying an antique Piper Cub at local air shows. In fact, Linda feels very secure in her life until a murderer suspects that she might be able to identify him. The setting is an imaginary Illinois town near the Mississippi River.
Stolen Holiday, [by] Marjorie Eatock. [New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1982.] 187p. (A Candlelight Esctasy Romance).
In a romance novel typical of the genre, Jane Doorn finds the love and adventure she seeks when she abandons her Iowa home for Quincy, Illinois, and a vacation in St. Croix.
1769. EATOCK, MARJORIE, 1927-
Wedding Journey, by Marjorie Eatock. [New York: Dell Publishing Co.; 1980.] 202p.1770. ECKERT, ALLAN W., 1931-Victoria Landam, daughter of a British earl, has traveled to the Illinois wilderness in the 1820s determined to marry Paul Winterthur as agreed, even though she loves Owen Verinder. But Owen, who is not easily cast aside, follows her into the wilderness, and fate intervenes to bring the lovers together on her wedding journey.
1771. ECKERT, ALLAN W., 1931-Gateway to Empire; A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert. Boston [and] Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1983. 688p.
The fifth volume in Eckert's monumental The Winning of America series, Gateway to Empire focuses on the settling of the Northwest Territory from 1763 to 1816, when the area is in turmoil over the invasion of the white man. As settlers move into the Ohio and Indiana territories wresting lands from the Ottawa and Potawatomi who have lived there for generations, those tribes are pushed further west into the land of the Illinois Confederacy. At the same time, British and American forces vie for supremacy over the Illinois territory, using Indian unrest to their own benefits. Gateway to Empire is a fictionalized but in-depth account of the murder of Pontiac, Tecumseh's dream of a united Indian federation that is destroyed by his brother's treachery, the Indians' alignment with the British in the War of 1812, and the Fort Dearborn Massacre. Major players in this drama are Pontiac, Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and John Kinzie.
Best Sellers, 3/1983, p. 453. Kirkus, 11/1/1982, p. 1220. Publishers Weekly, 10/29/1982, p. 37.
1772. ECKERT, ALLAN W., 1931-The Scarlet Mansion, [by] Allan W. Eckert. Boston [and] Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1985.] 500p.
Herman Mudgett committed his first murder at age eleven, and experienced sexual awakening at the same moment. Over the next twenty-five years, he killed between 130 and 200 people, until he was caught and convicted, ironically accused of a murder he did not commit. Perhaps the worst serial murderer of all time, Mudgett was handsome, charming, and debonair--attributes that he used to his advantage, since women were often his prey. In the early 1890s Midgett built a huge one-hundred room building in Chicago which served as store front for his pharmacy, office, and boarding house. Built with turrets, secret chambers, acid vats, hidden stairways, and countless rooms devoted to the torture and death that became his avocation, Mudgett's castle lured dozens of unsuspecting victims to their deaths during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1892. Eckert has researched his topic meticulously, and deals relentlessly with murder after murder, until one loses count. Eckert presents a well-documented novel of historical Chicago, but the story he tells is not one to which the city can look with pride.
Kirkus, 5/15/1985, p. 435. L. A. Times Book Review, 6/30/1985, p. 7. Library Journal, 6/1/1985, p. 142. Publishers Weekly, 5/3/1985, p. 67.
1773. EDWARDS, ANDREA.Song of the Wild, [by] Allan W. Eckert. Boston [and] Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1980.] 225p.
Caleb Erikson has the uncanny ability to project his consciousness into other living beings--a gift which often causes him embarrassment, since few people understand. During the summer of his twelfth year, Caleb is sent to live on a horse farm near Algonquin, Illinois, while his parents take a world tour. The events of the summer, particularly those associated with a local veterinarian, help Caleb come too grips with reality, but it is an accident near the end of his visit that sets the course of his future. Written by one of America's foremost naturalists, Song of the Wild is chock-full of information concerning both wild and domestic animals. Early scenes of the novel are set in the Zion, Illinois, area.
Booklist, 10/1/1980, p. 205. Kirkus, 9/1/1980, p. 1175. Library Journal, 11/15/1980, p. 2431. Publishers Weekly, 10/3/1980, p. 65.
1774. ELWARD, JAMES JOSEPH, 1928-Power Play, [by] Andrea Edwards. [New York:] Avon, [1984.] 342p.
Toni James is a fiercely independent modern woman who is working her way up in a Chicago accounting firm. When she is promoted to audit manager and given the Mid-America Supply account at the same time that her engagement to Bob Morgan is broken, Toni throws herself into her work and vows to avoid any further involvement with men. Associations with other men in the company and her encounters with Guy Ramsey, comptroller of Mid-America, serve to strengthen her resolve. Even Jon Morici, son of Mid-America's president, is overbearing and aggressive, and is not exempt from Toni's scorn. But Jon is persistent in his pursuit, just as Toni becomes persistent in following up on discrepancies found in Mid-America's books. When Toni's personal and professional lives clash, she has some difficult decisions to make, and compromise seems the only solution. Set in 1980s Chicago, Power Play focuses on the modern woman and the difficulties both she and her male associates experience in accepting her as an equal in the workplace and as a woman in society. To stress the point, chauvinism is often overdrawn,and relationships are strained because of it, but the plot moves and maintains interest, despite the author's tendency to moralize.
Publishers Weekly, 6/1/1984, p. 63.
1775. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Ask for Nothing More, [by] James Elward. New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, San Paulo, [and] Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1984.] 250p.
Mary Conroy is a recent divorcee when she is asked by Dan Martin to leave her nursing job to provide home nursing care for his invalid wife. Mary agrees, and thus begins a lovers' triangle that spans twenty years and alters the lives of everyone involved. Elward has attempted to deal kindly with "the other woman," and has succeeded too well in Mary's case, for her willing martyrdom and unquestioning acceptance of fate make her ever so tedious. Set in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s, the novel presents an adequate view of the neighborhoods and varying lifestyles of one of America's most diverse cities.
Booklist, 2/15/1984, p. 845. Kirkus, 12/15/1983, p. 1264. Library Journal, 3/15/1984, p. 596. Publishers Weekly, 12/23/1983, p. 54. West Coast Review of Books, 5/1984, p. 30.
Campus Melody, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1955.] 188p.1776. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-After graduating from a suburban Chicago high school, Jean Burnaby chooses to study music at Overton College overlooking the Ohio River, while her high school boyfriend Scotty decides to go to college in Colorado. In her new environment Jean decides to date other guys, but decides that Scotty is the one for her after a fling with one of the campus leaders.
Book Review Digest, 1955, p. 278-9.
Dinny Gordon, Freshman, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1959.] 190p.1777. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Dinny Gordon is a typical 1950s freshman at suburban Chicago's Rosemont High School. Her extra energies are consumed in large part by working toward a trip to Rome and a friendship with a senior boy that might have turned serious but for a case of measles.
Book Review Digest, 1960, p. 416.
Denny Gordon, Junior, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1964.] 169p.1778. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Denny Gordon's junior year in high school is frought with problems. Feeling unready to go steady, Denny struggles with her feelings for Curt and her attraction to Tom. Meanwhile, she takes a job but loses it because of a shoplifting incident and confronts prejudice headon when a Jewish family moves into the neighborhood. For awhile, her only success seems to be her job at the public library.
Denny Gordon, Senior, [by] Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1965.] 159p.1779. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Denny Gordon spends several months of her senior year at Rosemont High School trying to please Steve Denison before realizing that he is not giving her the same consideration. Denny deals positively with the situation and gets on with her plans for a summer tour of the Mediterranean and classes at the University of California in the fall.
Dinny Gordon, Sophomore, [by] Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1961.] 185p.1780. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-The second installment in Emery's Dinny Gordon Series finds Dinny a year older, but still not interested in dating, even though most of her friends and classmates at suburban Chicago's Rosemont High have boyfriends. Dinny spends her time watching, wondering, and avoiding commitment.
Kirkus, 10/1/1965, p. 763. Library Journal, 9/15/1965, p. 3813.
A Dream to Touch, [by] Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company 1958.] 190p.1781. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Teenaged Marya Rose might qualify as a typical first generation immigrant living in the Chicago tenements if it weren't for her musical talent. During her high school years she discovers the difficulties and responsibilities that going steady involves and decides to concentrate on preparing for her career.
Booklist, 9/1/1958, p. 26. Kirkus, 4/1/1958, p. 286. Library Journal, 7/1958, p. 2075.
First Love Farewell, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1958.] 171p.1782. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Emery's third Pat Marlowe novel finds Pat in her first year at Northwestern University studying speech, planning to be an actress, and wanting to marry her high school fiance. But the university broadens Pat's horizons and changes her plans, particularly those concerning Tim.
Booklist, 1/15/1959, p. 262. Kirkus, 8/1/1958, p. 550. Library Journal, 10/15/1958, p. 3015.
First Love, True Love, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1956.] 189p.1783. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Pat Marlowe disagrees with her mother on many issues, including whether a sixteen-year-old should be allowed to go steady. A part-time job, a serious boyfriend, an aborted attempt at helping a friend, and other experiences of growing up in a Chicago suburb during the 1950s help her to mature and reconcile conflicts among family and friends. Love remains an unresolved issue.
Book Review Digest, 1956, p. 292.
First Orchid for Pat, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1957.] 185p.1784. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-This sequel to First Love, True Love finds Pat Marlowe a high school senior adjusting to life without Tim Davis, her fiancee, who has gone away to college. The separation gives Pat time to mature and consider what she wants of life.
Book Review Digest, 1957, p. 290.
Going Steady, [by] Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1950.] 189p.1785. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Emery's second novel featuring Sally Burnaby, Going Steady is set during the summer following her senior year in high school. Sally has fallen in love and she and Scott begin planning their wedding. Fortunately, when they decide that they are not yet ready for marriage, college becomes a reasonable alternative. The setting is a Chicago suburb during the late 1940s.
Book Review Digest, 1950, p. 281.
The Losing Game, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1965.] 140p.1786. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-This sequal to The Popular Crowd follows Sue Morgan through her junior year of high school. No longer interested in being one of the popular crowd, Sue turns her effort to her studies and her special interest, journalism. Writing about honesty and integrity for the school newspaper gives her a new perspective and leads to some hard decisions when friends are discovered cheating. The setting is a north Chicago suburb in the 1960s.
Married on Wednesday; A Junior Novel by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1957.] 224p. Kay Chandler and Kenny Dixon fall in love and marry while attending Northwestern University in Evanston in the 1950s. After the marriage, well-meaning parents want to continue making decisions for the couple, causing major problems until the two learn to cope with pressures and take responsibility for their life together. Book Review Digest, 1957, p. 290.1787. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-
The Popular Crowd, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1961.] 170p.1788. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Teenaged Sue Morgan longs to be one of the popular crowd in her north suburban Chicago high school, until she accomplishes her goal and discovers the price that popularity demands.
Scarlet Royal, by Anne Emery. Illustrated by Manning de V. Lee. Philadelphia: The Junior Literary Guild and Macrae Smith Company, [1952.] 223p.1789. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Madeleine Macintyre and her three daughters are left with a horse farm in north central Illinois and little else when her husband died suddenly. Determined to make the best of the situation, the four turn the farm into a riding school. The novel focuses on teenaged Margo, whose passion for horses, especially Scarlet Royal, whom she raises from a colt, provides a special impetus for the family to stay on the farm.
Book Review Digest, 1953, p. 296.
Senior Year, by Anne Emery. Illustrated by Beth Krush. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1949.] 208p.1790. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-Senior year doesn't look too promising to Sally Burnaby when her best friend moves away during the summer and her boyfriend starts dating someone else soon after. Sally adjusts, and all turns out well as a new love enters her life, in this 1940s novel about growing up in a north Chicago suburb.
Book Review Digest, 1949, p. 275.
Sorority Girl, by Anne Emery. Illustrated by Richard Horwitz. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1952.] 191p.1791. EMERY, ANNE McGUIGAN, 1907-The third novel in Emery's series concerning the Burnaby clan focuses on teenaged Jean, who is invited to join a sorority during her junior year in high school. Enamored of the glamor and prestige of her new-found acceptance, Jean overlooks her classes and ignores old friends until she is forced to face reality.
Book Review Digest, 1952, p. 285.
That Archer Girl, by Anne Emery. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1959.] 175p.1792. ENG, RITA.Anne Archer has everything that a girl could possibly want, except true friendship and true love. During her senior year at Auburn Academy, a private girls school in an exclusive Chicago suburb, Anne confronts her problems and realizes that many of them are of her own making.
Booklist, 3/15/1960, p. 449. Kirkus, 9/1/1959, p. 657. Library Journal, 12/15/1959, p. 3935. N. Y. Times Book Review, 11/1/1959, p. 34.
Ruthie, A Novel by Rita Eng. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 247p.1793. ENGH, MARY JANE, 1933-Ruthie decides to accompany her husband on a business trip to Chicago in the hope of finding out more about the death of her best friend, Mary Louise. Instead, she finds that her husband has a mistress in Chicago, so Mary Louise's death takes a definite back seat while marital differences get sorted out. Set in the 1950s, Ruthie demonstrates striking differences between attitudes toward marriage then and now.
1794. ENGLEMAN, PAUL, 1953-Arslan, by M. J. Engh. New York: Arbor House, [1987.] 296p.
Engh has combined science and political fiction into a striking view of the future. Arslan, a Turkistani invader, has taken over the world and plans to turn back the clocks to a time prior to the industrial revolution when people were self-sufficient and society was less complex. Setting up headquarters in the southern Illinois community of Kraftville, Arslan proceeds through force, intimidation, and fear to implement his plan for world domination. Told from the perspectives of the Kraftville elementary school principal and a thirteen-year-old boy who becomes Arslan's homosexual lover, the novel alternates between realism and idealism, providing two often opposing, sometimes contradictory views of the action.
Analog, 11/1987, p. 131. Booklist, 5/1/1987, p. 1336. Fantasy Review, 5/1987, p. 40. Kirkus, 4/1/1987, p. 514. Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 7/1987, p. 16. Publishers Weekly, 4/10/1987, p. 85. Science Fiction Chronicle, 8/1987, p. 53. Voice of Youth Advocates, 8/1987, p. 129.
1795. EPSTEIN, JOSEPH, 1937-Catch a Fallen Angel, [by] Paul Engleman. New York: The Mysterious Press, [1986.] 199p.
When Sherri West disappears two weeks before she is to be featured as Paradise Magazine's Angel-of-the-Month, the publisher hires Mark Renzler to find her. Although Mark and his partner, Nate Moore, are New York-based detectives, they accept the job, which takes them to Chicago where the magazine is published and where Sherri was last seen. Set in 1969 during the Chicago Eight trials and the anti-war demonstrations that accompanied them, the novel mixes history and mystery in an entertaining tale that reflects the social attitudes of the times in detective fiction format.
Best Sellers, 2/1987, p. 423. Kirkus, 12/1/1986, p. 1762.
1796. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-The Goldin Boys; Stories [by] Joseph Epstein. New York [and] London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1991.] 221p.
The Jewish Psyche is probed by one of their own in these nine short stories by an accomplished Chicago writer.
CONTENTS: The Count and the Princess.--Low Anxiety.--No Pulitzer for Pinsker.--The Goldin Boys.--Kaplan's Big Deal.--Schlifkin on My Books.--Marshall Wexler's Brilliant Career.--Paula, Dinky, and the Shark.--Another Rare Visit with Noah Danzing.
Booklist, 9/15/1991, p. 118. Kirkus, 8/1/1991, p. 950. Library Journal, 10/1/1991, p. 142. Publishers Weekly, 8/16/1991, p. 44.
A Capital Killing, [by] David Everson. New York: Ivy Books, [1990.] 228p.
A missing wife, a questionable tycoon, a threatened lawyer, and a defaced synagogue provide Springfield, Illinois, private investigator Robert Miles with plenty of work as he ties loose ends together and comes up with fraud and murder in state politics.
1797. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-
False Profits, [by] David Everson. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992.] 262p.1798. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-Springfield, Illinois, private investigator Robert Miles is hired by the Abraham Lincoln Legal Association to check out one Joseph X. Smith, who is said to have documents that implicate Lincoln in the 1844 plot to kill Smith's ancestor, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, founder of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois.
Booklist, 9/1/1992/ p. 35. Kirkus, 6/1/ 1992, p. 695. Publishers Weekly, 6/1/1992, p. 86.
Rebound, [by] David Everson. New York: Ivy Books, [1988.] 230p.
The Lincoln Heritage University Railsplitters basketball team is rated eighteenth in the nation, and some fans are willing to do anything to see them go all the way. Springfield private investigator Robert Miles looks into payoffs, point-shaving, drugs, and murder.
Armchair Detective, Summer/1989, p. 305.
1799. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-
Recount, [by] David Everson. New York: Ivy Books, [1987.] 233p.
An Illinois candidate for the United States Senate is the target for someone willing to commit murder to see that he doesn't get elected. Robert Miles investigates in Springfield and Carbondale.
1800. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-
Rematch, [by] David Everson. New York: Ivy Books, [1989.] 247p.
A right-wing extremist has won the nomination for governor of Illinois and appears willing to commit murder in order to win the election. Robert Miles of Springfield investigates.
1801. EVERSON, DAVID H., 1941-
1802. EWING, ANNEMARIE.Suicide Squeeze, [by] David Everson. New York: St. Martin's Press; A Thomas Dunne Book, [1991.] 248p.
When Robert Miles, Springfield P. I. and special investigator for Illinois' Speaker of the House, agrees to coach at a fantasy baseball camp to be held in Chicago, he sees it as a payback opportunity for the Cubs' loss of the pennant in 1969. Protecting a player whose life has been threatened and investigating a hit-and-run accident involving the son of a Republican House member are secondary to the game, until bullets start to fly in Wrigley Field.
Booklist, 3/1/1991, p. 1320. Kirkus, 2/15/1991, p. 215. Publishers Weekly, 1/25/1991, p. 50.
Little Gate, by Annemarie Ewing. New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1947.] 278p.Joe Geddes is enthralled by the jazz he hears played by the Blacks in his hometown of Muscatine, Iowa, and later at the University of Iowa, where he decides that his chances of earning a living as a jazz saxophone player are better in Chicago than anywhere else. In fact, Joe's fortunes flourish in Chicago's Black jazz district, until an unfortunate incident with a young woman and a gangster persuade him to move on to New York.
Kirkus, 3/1/1947, p. 138. Library Journal, 5/1/1947, p. 732.
