Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: A Sam McCain Mystery - Hardcover

Gorman, Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786707755 ISBN 13: 9780786707751

Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2001

Synopsis

The acclaimed Sam McCain series continues - with another case of murder in America's mid-century heartland. In this charming, expertly crafted new mystery set in the twilight of Iowa's 1950s, fledgling lawyer Sam McCain is dancing to a different tune when he discovers that the beautiful blonde who's been tracking him in her black Ford convertible is interested in more than his red ragtop. She's Lila Leigh Mulchaey, and McCain's in love. Two problems, though, darken McCain's mood: Lila is pregnant, and Philip Mulchaey, her father - an outspoken advocate of left-wing causes who'd been fired from his job in the State Department during the McCarthy trials - stands at the center of the political storm surrounding the upcoming visit of Nikita Kruschev to Iowa. Then Philip Mulchaey turns up dead. That he was murdered for his politics, everybody, including McCain's sometime employer, the imperious Judge Esme Anne Whitney, assumes. McCain, however, is not so sure. Murder's usually more personal in Black River Falls.

About this title

About the Author:

Ed Gorman, winner of the Shamus, the SPUR, and the International Fiction Writer's Award among others, is the author of numerous highly praised novels. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Robert Hale also published his previous novel, The Day the Music Died.

From Booklist:

Joe McCarthy's better-dead-than-red mentality has penetrated even the small Iowa burg of Black River Falls, where young Sam McCain supplements his earnings as a lawyer by working as a private investigator. At the conclusion of a photo-op appearance by touring Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev, former State Department official and Black River Falls resident, Richard Conners, a notorious liberal, indicates he'd like to hire McCain. He shows up at McCain's apartment a day later, near death, but he won't expose his attacker. McCain has no faith in the investigative ability of local law enforcement, so he proceeds on his own. In short order, he's also confronted with the deaths of a former FBI agent now fronting an anti-Communist organization and two other right-wing activists. The third Sam McCain case is as compelling and entertaining as its predecessors. Gorman, an underappreciated master of the genre, has created an insular, self-contained world in Black River Falls, where good and evil clash with the same heartbreaking results as they have in the more urban crime dramas of Block or Leonard. Wes Lukowsky
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786707755
• ISBN 13: 9780786707751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256