Everybody's Somebody's Fool

Fifth in the Sam McCain PI murder mystery series. Set in 1961 Iowa.

When the body of a young woman is found murdered in a gazebo, the police chief, Clifford Sykes, redneck and McCain's bitter enemy arrests the local bad boy, David Egan, for the crime. Egan just happens to be a client of McCain's. He swears he's innocent. When he dies in a fiery car crash while drag racing, Sykes is ready to wrap it up as a murder-suicide. Then a cut brake line shows it to be another murder. McCain is suddenly working to clear the dead young man's name.