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The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself

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The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself
AuthorK.C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherSaturday Review Press
Publication date
1973
Publication place USA
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages156
ISBN0-8415-0266-8
OCLC746089
Preceded byThe Rocksburg Railroad Murders 
Followed byThe Blank Page 

The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1970s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.

As the novel opens, Balzic and Lt. Harry Minyon of the state police are hunting pheasant at the Rocksburg Rod and Gun Club when, after Minyon's dog bites Balzic, the dog uncovers a piece of human bone that shows signs of having been hacked apart.

It is the second book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.

References

  • Demarest, David P. (1976). From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1123-X.