Edward Gorman

A deputy finds himself plunged into a deadly world of arson, kidnapping, and murder in a small town where nothing is what it seems as faceless enemies try to kill him and the townpeople turn against him

Caught in the middle of a dispute over a hippie commune that has moved into Black River Falls, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain doubts claims that a troubled commune member is responsible for a local murder.

Political consultant Dev Conrad had the feeling that his very married client Senator Robert Logan was a lot more involved with the beautiful and mysterious Tracy Cabot than he wanted to admit. But he leanred too late that Cabot was a spy working for a shadowy right-wing organization---too late beacuse by then she'd beed found murdered in Senator's Logan's fishing cabin, and the police are certain that he killed her. But Conrad finds numerous suspects...

A collelction of twelve mystery stories

A man investigates the death of his younger brother, who according to rumor, robbed a stagecoach and then hanged himself

"Political consultant Dev Conrad knows that helping Congressman Michael Robards to get re-elected is going to be tough. Robards' liberal voting record stands against him, and his staff seem resentful of Dev himself - which could doom the campaign. But there's a bigger problem: A campaign worker has been shot behind Robards' headquarters. Both Dev and the police presume it was a mugging, but as the election draws near, Robards is implicated in the...

When his father, a no-good drunk and womanizer, is accused of murdering his second wife, a man sets out to find the truth, despite the fact that he believes his father is guilty

A lawman finds himself at the center of blackmail when his number-one advesary digs up the dirt on his wife and frames her for the murder of a drifter