380 East Court Street, Atoka, OK 74525
Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
It's 1958 in Black River Falls, Iowa (pop. 26,750), and at Bill Malley's barbershop and the lunch counter in the local Rexall, there's a lot of talks, a lot of it is negative, about communism, fluoride, civil rights marches, a guy named Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. And even at twenty-six, with a law degree and a private investigator's license, Sam McCain thinks nothing of driving four hours of two-lane blacktop (with the radio forecasting major snowfalls) in his '51 red Ford ragtop for a performance, on February 3, by his personal favorite rock-and-roll idol, Buddy Holly. The next morning brings McCain more than the bad news of Buddy Holly's fatal plane crash.
The dawn's barely cracked when McCain finds the dead body of Susan Whitney in the living room of her huge Tudor-style mansion outside of town, and upstairs, within the same hour, her bully of a husband, Richie, remorsefully confesses to murder and kills himself with his rifle. But all of McCain's instincts tell him that Richie didn't also shoot his wife. Then, before the day ends, in a canoe on a frozen pond, McCain uncovers another corpse, this time a pregnant teenage girl, that only seems to be unrelated to the Whitney case.
This paperback book is in great condition and weighs 4.7 oz.
380 East Court Street, Atoka, OK 74525
Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 2:00 pm