Why did they fear a dead man? Dave Bannion, homicide sergeant, fought for the answer to that question. He got it ..Then the big heat came.
The dead man was a police clerk who shot himself for no obvious reason. That was Bannion's first judgement, until a girl named Lucy presented quiet a different picture of the dead man from the one he had shown to the world- and his fastidious glacial wife.
Published in 1952 this is very old fashioned in its language but there are several excellent surprises on the way to a resolution.
Evidently there is a very good movie starring Glen Ford made from this book which doesn't surprise as this is a very good story.
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