Dead man's cross [Import] [Hardcover]

Howard Charles Davis (Author)

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• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Long (1965)
• ASIN: B0000CMH0Y
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars I'll Be Seeing You..., June 14, 2006

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Man's Cross (Linford Mystery) (Paperback)

The Victoria Cross (for Valor in service) was the colonel's most valued possession, and it is missing. His estranged daughter is sure her mean father is still alive, but where? John Cully with the aid of Phoebe probe into all aspects of the disappearance and the note left behind. Not many people liked Col. Weitzell and he was considered a danger to the Chinese General currently with a delegation in England.

A concerted search was conducted in order to protect the party from China. The colonel had left a coded warning before he was abducted by a group intent on murder. He was bombarded by a barage of Doris Day songs before they put him out of his misery. There are ingenious ways to torture a person and her moaning and groaning is enough to make the hardened criminal beg for death. I know three or more such tormentors waging an abusive campaign, but they have yet to be able to prove "mission accomplished." Their day will come, as the Colonel's did.

He had been a hard nut to crack but they, like the orney crew, paid eventually a big price for the continual campaign. There is a price for nasty people who abuse others for whatever reason. Since the Colonel had been gross like these compatriots in crime he was disposed of in a messy manner. His daughter was relieved that he couldn't come back to hurt her again. Some dead are not grieved. We each have to pay for our sins and willfully causing any kind of misery will end up in a morass of suffering. Like Neil Diamond's song, 'Play Me,' he was sorry he'd said, "Come take me." There was no going back. The price had to be paid.