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    Everybody's Somebody's Fool

    By Ed Gorman

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    There is a body in a gazebo, and the chief suspect is not long for this world.

    Small-town lawyer and private detective Sam McCain is enjoying a cocktail party, dancing with a lovelier specimen than his five-foot-five-inch frame usually attracts, when the hostess confronts him with a problem the likes of which Good Housekeeping has never seen. There is a corpse in the backyard gazebo, and the party is definitely over.

    The murdered girl was the twenty-year-old daughter of the town's Cadillac dealer, a troubled young woman with a self-destructive streak. The police focus their investigation on her drag-racing boyfriend, local bad boy David Egan, whom McCain agrees to defend. When Egan dies in a freak car accident, the case seems closed. But examining the hot rod shows a cut brake line -- and a motive for a killing far more complicated than good girl gone bad.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784084998
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    Everybody's Somebody's Fool
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    Ed Gorman

    Ed Gorman's western fiction has won the Spur Award and his crime fiction has won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and has been shortlisted for the Edgar® Award. In addition, his writing has appeared in Redbook, the New York Times, Ellery Queen Magazine, Poetry Today, and other publications.

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    • 3/5
      Sam McCain investigates the murders of a pregnant young woman found dead in her married lover's gazebo; the young man suspected of the murder, after he dies when his dragster black Merc goes off a cliff after having its brake lines cut.... Then the murder of the young man's married lover.....Young man was a belligerent womanizing punk who was living w/ his two elderly spinster aunts, as his parents had died when he was a child. His girlfriends ranged from sweet to tough to married to rich, who he all played against each other.The side story is of Sam's new relationship w/ Linda, who is learning to trust again after her husband dumped her after her mastectomy.Sam McCain is a very decent guy as is Linda a very nice woman, the Judge Sam works for is a piker, the sheriff is an idiot... and the rest of the assorted characters, I really didn't have much empathy for, which is why I gave this only 3 stars....