Sam McCain mysteries
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Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The day after Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Black River Ralls, Iowa, Richard Conners is murdered. Few doubt that the murder has political overtones, but when both suspects also turn up murdered, fledgling lawyer Sam McCain turns to the theory that the murders might be more personal than political.
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Everybody's somebody's fool , Sam McCain mysteries volume 5
Author
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
301 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marital infidelity, murder, and the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs over the heartland in the sixth installment of the popular Sam McCain mystery series. Certainly not dull is October 1962, not with Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev promising to launch Soviet nuclear weaponry from Cuba if the U.S. attempts to invade the island. For seven taut days, since the 22nd, the Kennedy White House has been facing down the Soviets with an ultimatum to dismantle...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Attorney Sam McCain investigates the murder of a young black man in his 1960s Iowa hometown, suspecting a link between the murder and Senator Lloyd Williams, a political official facing a tough re-election campaign, whose daughter is rumored to have been dating the victim.
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Language
English
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Description
For small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain the year 1965 is not a sweet one. His father is gravely ill. His elitist boss is just coming out of rehab. The brilliant lawyer he hoped to start a relationship with has gone back to her husband. Still McCain tries to enjoy himself during the town's Labor Day weekend party, reuniting with several old friends - until two of them are murdered for what seems to be a motive buried in the past.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam's military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally shot in the head and forced to spend three months in a military hospital to recover. Sam returns to his hometown of Black River Falls, where he works as a lawyer (and part-time investigator) for the court of the snobbish but amusing Judge Esme Ann Whitney. Two of Sam's oldest friends are caught up in...
