Eureka – William Diehl
Where the california dream turns to deadly nightmare...
The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky is found dead in her bath, apparently the lonely, unremarkable victim of a sad accident. She had no survivors. But she had a bank account packed with almost 100,000 dollar. How could a woman like Verna have amassed such a fortune? As Los Angeles police detective Zeke Bannon begins to investigate, he discovers a paper trail all the way to a bank in San Pietro, a town one hundred miles north of the city, a town once known as Eureka. In its early days, Eureka was a bootlegger’s paradise and a gangster’s dream but now it’s the respectable, law-abiding town where long-time Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching his bid to become California’s next governor. As Zeke Bannon digs deeper into the mystery of Wilensky’s death, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shoot-out, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelon of California’s elite, forever changing the destiny of the state...

504 pag.
Paperback
Goede staat
ISBN 0 09 943998 0
2003 Arrow Books Londen