A Show of Hands

ISBN: 089272398X

Author: Crossman, David A.

Condition: Used

RETIRED INTELLIGENCE agent Winston Crisp thought his career of delving into dark, unpleasant secrets was long over. Hes forsaken adventure and is comfortably settled on peaceful Penobscot Island, off the coast of Maine. The mild-mannered Crisp is content to write poems no magazine will publish, gossip with the locals around the stove at the hardware store, and gain weight on his landladys homestyle cooking. But when the body of a young woman turns up, Crisp just cant stop himself from asking a few questions. Questions like, how did she end up frozen in the ice of an abandoned quarry? Whose fingerprints are those on her slender neck? What was her relationship with the son of a U.S. Senator who summers on the island? And why is her beautiful face caked with forty-year-old theatrical make-up?
Before long, octogenarian Crisp finds himself caught up in a tangled murder investigation, haunted by a red-headed ghost, and the target of a killer with a strangely twisted mind. His own grip on reality is slipping, and hes losing his will to keep digging. But he's determined not to go to his grave with these questions unanswered...