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Crime novel by K. C. Constantine For other uses, see Blank page (disambiguation).

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The Blank Page
First edition
Author	K. C. Constantine
Language	English
Publisher	Saturday Review Press
Publication date	1974
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	150
ISBN	0-8415-0335-4
OCLC	835377
Preceded by	The Man Who Liked To Look at Himself
Followed by	A Fix Like This

The Blank Page is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1970s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Plot

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, it is a record-hot Memorial Day when Miss Cynthia Summer calls Police Chief Mario Balzic to say that she hadn't seen one of her student roomers. Balzic discovers Janet Pisula's body on the floor of her room, a blank sheet of typing paper on her stomach.....

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

References

Czerwinski, Mary, et al. “The Contribution of Thumbnail Image, Mouse-over Text and Spatial Location Memory to Web Page Retrieval in 3D.” INTERACT, 1999, pp. 163–170.
"Record-breaking heat hangs over Minnesota on Memorial Day". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
"Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series by K.C. Constantine". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.

v t e Novels by K. C. Constantine
Mario Balzic series	The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972) The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973) The Blank Page (1974) A Fix Like This (1975) The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) Always a Body to Trade (1983) Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985) Joey's Case (1988) Sunshine Enemies (1990) Bottom Liner Blues (1993) Cranks and Shadows (1995) Good Sons (1996) Family Values (1997) Brushback (1998) Blood Mud (1999)
Other novels	Grievance (2000) Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

Novels by K. C. Constantine

Mario Balzic series

The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972)
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973)
The Blank Page (1974)
A Fix Like This (1975)
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982)
Always a Body to Trade (1983)
Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985)
Joey's Case (1988)
Sunshine Enemies (1990)
Bottom Liner Blues (1993)
Cranks and Shadows (1995)
Good Sons (1996)
Family Values (1997)
Brushback (1998)
Blood Mud (1999)

Other novels

Grievance (2000)
Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

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