Things go wrong for dangerous, young David Egan when he finds himself charged with the murder of the pampered but seriously disturbed daughter in the wealthy Griffin family of Black River Falls. They go fatally wrong the night that Egan crashes his black Mercury into a bridge at ninety miles and hour in a drag race outside of town - but no accident, it would appear, as the Merc's brake line had been cut.Struggling lawyer and sometime private eye Sam McCain finds himself, not unusually, hauled into the investigation by the incorrigible Judge Esme Ann Whitney.Jealous husbands, philandering spouses, jilted girlfriends, outraged parents, a long suffering wife - Sam does not want for suspects. Or for clues. It's the conclusive evidence that surprises him and that frostily ends the Indian summer in Iowa 1961.
- ISBN10 0709085591
- ISBN13 9780709085591
- Publish Date 30 April 2008 (first published 25 May 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 November 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English