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Corpse in the Concrete: A Lt. Mark Stoddard Mystery eBooks
by J. D. Crayne
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Corpse in the Concrete: A Lt. Mark Stoddard Mystery Summary
| THE THIRD LT. MARK STODDARD MYSTERY IS A DOOZEY! Mark Stoddard is one smart cop. But it doesn't take a genius to know its no ordinary case when he finds a building contractor is found half-embedded in concrete, trousers down, mooning the world. As it turns out, the deceased, Josh Vieland, has enough enemies in and around town to fill a telephone directory. The only person who didn't seem to hate Vieland was his tearful spouse, who refuses to believe anything bad about him--even when he spent most of his evenings away from home, keeping an eye on the property. She says she never suspected her husband was also keeping a very close and eye on a certain young cocktail waitress -- but did she? Then there is the crotchety old gent who lives up the hill from the construction site and would have set his dogs on Vieland if he had any. And why does the lovely young niece seems to know more about the contractor's personal habits than she's willing to admit? Complicating the case are the Shank brothers; two of the shadiest characters in town, who spend most of their time drunk, doped up, or both. Rounding out this zany, light-hearted, romp through mayhem are the property owner, who was expecting to see his house finished on time, a lounge-lizard with no visible means of support, and a restaurant owner with a more than fatherly interest in his female staff. Just as Detective Stoddard thinks he has all the answers, the forensics crew discovers a fascinating fact about the corpse, which turns the entire problem upside down! As In the Library Reviews says: "The action starts quickly and the reader is pulled into the investigation. The characters were exceptionally drawn, with each one being unique. Absorbing." |
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| Detective Mark Stoddard's deadliest case! When the decayed corpse of an unknown man is found slouched in an outhouse in a rural California town, Pomo City Police Detective Mark Stoddard finds himself investigating a bizarre mixture of suspects, including Civil War buffs, several eccentric artists, and a pedantic antique dealer. Digging out clues to murder from gravel-voiced Ma Shanahan's Irish pub to the beer and sin-stained bar of The Sweat Lodge, Stoddard finds that small towns can have big secrets, and even bigger motives for murder. The crucial answer to the mystery seems to hinge on the meaning of a strange tattoo, but when a second man is reported missing, it suddenly looks like an open and shut case; a case of sick jealousy that brought one man to his grave and turned his killer into a fugitive. But Stoddard soon realizes that obvious solutions can be misleading and that hidden motives may be the most powerful ones of all. What about the beautiful Japanese girl that both men loved, and that one of them may have loved a little too much? Who owned the murder weapon--and who used it? Did the antique dealer have more than a casual interest in his beautiful young assistant? As he delves deeper into the secret motives behind this bizarre killing, Stoddard discovers that this sleepy little Western town hides more than one mystery, and finds himself unraveling a tangled knot of love, ambition, and envy as he stalks a calculating killer in a determined search for the answers. |
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