Drover and the Zebras
Back home in Chicago, Drover runs into an old flame whose brother is now head basketball coach at their alma mater, St. Mary's (a thinly disguised Notre Dame). St. Mary's looks like a Final Four team for the first time in its history, but the coach is the subject of an NCAA investigation into recruiting and point-shaving accusations, which is spurred on by the apparent suicide of a referee. Drover looks into things and learns that the dead official did regular business with a bookie; teaming up with a tough cop, he confronts an FBI agent with more interest in his own agenda than in serving justice. None of this endears Drover to St. Mary's' look-the-other-way president and its fast-track athletic director.
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Bill Granger
Bill Granger, was a newspaperman turned novelist whose fiction alternated between international spy thrillers and police procedurals set on the gritty streets of Chicago.
Usually under his own name but sometimes under the pseudonym Joe Gash or Bill Griffiths, Mr. Granger wrote 25 novels, many of which evoked the rougher environs of Chicago and included colorful characters with names like Slim Dingo, Tony Rolls and Jesus X Mohammed.
Mr. Granger’s favorite, and perhaps best-known, book was “Public Murders” (1980), in which the city is in an uproar as a rapist-murderer strikes again and again. Public and political pressure exacts an emotional toll on the tough, foulmouthed detectives investigating the crimes. Public Murders won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1981.
Drover
Drover consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
