...all the information I have just supplied cannot be verified and may not bear in any way on the circumstances of the girl's death. My spies in this matter are less than trustworthy and their reports often contradictory. It is the nature of the politically motivated to spread misinformation more readily than the truth. So, everything I have just said may be completely false and misleading and deliberately so.
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Tomorrow is my last appearance with Fred Ramsay…
…but it’s definitely not the last time I’ll be handselling his books to you. His was a unique and delightful voice in crime fiction and he’s one of those authors whose work I never tire of recommending. He could write it all, and all of it well. Fred died last year and I was honored…

This time someone has dumped a body in Ike’s jurisdiction (well, six feet his side of the county line, anyway).
The third in the Ike Schwartz series about a ex-spook small town sheriff in the Shenandoah Valley in rural Virginia. This time someone has dumped a body in Ike’s jurisdiction (well, six feet his side of the county line, anyway). The bad news is his deputy says it looks like a member of one of…

The trouble with this whole family is, we got Lebruns on the brain.
Jesse Sutherlin comes home from the trenches of World War I, where …we captured us a handful of them soldaten and one of them spoke a little American. You know something? He didn’t have any more idea why he was at war than we did. We all had a laugh at that, I tell you.…

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