It is 21 September, 1959. The world's number-one Communist, Nikita Khrushchev, has landed in Iowa during the height of the McCarthy era and in Black River Falls someone has resorted to painting the town murderously red. A high-profile writer, with Communist sympathies and a very jealous wife, turns up dead at the office of private eye and lawyer Sam McCain. Everyone - including McCain's sometime boss - believes it was the victim's politics that got him killed. But McCain isn't convinced. Especially when his two suspects also turn up dead within the next 24 hours. Now he must prove that this time murder is more personal than political.
- ISBN10 0709076657
- ISBN13 9780709076650
- Publish Date 31 January 2005 (first published 18 December 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English