Triphammer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan McCall
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Ithaca, New York
- Principal Characters: Oliver “Triphammer” Bodley, Dick Bodley, Sydney
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Police procedural
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, Police, 1980’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Middle age
- Locales: Ithaca, NY
With Triphammer Dan McCall returns to territory covered more routinely in an earlier novel, Bluebird Canyon (1983), and reintroduces a character from that work. The character’s nickname gives the reader of this eponymous novel an immediate clue to the type of story about to unfold: gritty, minimalist, hard-edged.
The opening chapter leaves no doubts. Triphammer, a veteran middle-aged cop in Ithaca, New York, receives a call from a local attorney distraught over his missing twelve-year-old son. Triphammer immediately begins to worry about the case even though...
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