In Depression-era South Dakota, detective Carl Wilcox finds himself investigating the brutal murder of a local town police officer, and meeting a woman or two along the way. By the award-winning author of The Ditched Blonde.
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From Publishers Weekly
While Depression-era South Dakota may seem an unlikely setting for a mystery series, Adams has done well there, earning the 1993 Shamus Award for The Man Who Was Taller Than God. His lightning rod for trouble is Carl Wilcox who, in his fifth appearance here, does a friend a favor by taking over the job of Lou Dupree, the murdered police officer in the town of Mustard. Adams's spare prose and artful characterizations bring to life the inhabitants of the small community where long-festering frustrations and passions have erupted. Dupree, a high-school athletic hero turned bitter WWI veteran, was roundly hated by the time his body was found neatly chopped up in his bed. Among those who don't miss him are the wife who threw him out, his abused teenage son, various used and rejected women, cuckolded husbands and humiliated rivals. Wilcox exercises an edgy humor, his eye for beauty and a willingness to stick his nose into everyone's business as he probes alibis and motives. Adams's quietly effective storytelling is a refreshing antidote to the verbiage of many bloated bestsellers.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Ne'er-do-well Carl Wilcox now has enough experience as a talented detective that he gets hired once again as the temporary town cop, this time in Mustard, South Dakota. His job: find the killer of his predecessor, Lou Dupree, once the local high-school football hero, who was found dead of four, precisely placed hatchet wounds. Only the briefest of conversations with the mayor reveals that Lou was disliked by nearly everyone. Further conversations with the town's ladies tell Carl about the victim's obsessive womanizing, which creates quite a large pool of suspects among husbands and boyfriends. Carl, in his usual smooth and seemingly lazy way, manages to uncover quite a bit of dirty laundry in the town, including that of the supercilious doctor whose wife was one of Lou's conquests. Readers have come to expect first-rate mysteries from Adams, richly evocative stories of small-town, Depression-era South Dakota, related in clean, concise prose. With yet another installment in this long-running series, he again proves himself to be one of our best contemporary crime writers. Don't miss it. Stuart Miller
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