Along Came Bill

&quote;The year is 1939 and the Great Depression still plagues thesmall, Midwestern, college town of Warrensburg. A young coedsbody is found in a lake, on the edge of town, by two younglads fi shing for perch. Buck Pettit, Police Chief, is notifi ed, anda search to fi nd the killer is launched. He gathers the same groupof friends together who had helped him find the killer of a schoolteacher just three years before.They are; Harry Foster - Johnson County Sheriff. AnnPettit - Bucks beautiful, charming and intelligent wife.Rudolph Eisenstein - an elderly, but brilliant, lawyer. ElizabethBreckenridge -a widow, Beth, as she is known to her friends, isthe principal stockholder and president of he Breckenridge StateBank. Like Ann Pettit, Beth, as she is known by her friends, isa very beautiful, intelligent and charming woman. She is also acrack shot with the small .25 caliber hand-gun she carries in herpurse, as Buck fi nds out at a critical moment in the investigation.The last two members of the investigation team are Irv Hodgesand Will Cox, two precocious 13 year old lads who became friendswhen Will, or Bill as Irv was want to call him, moved to townwith his parents in the summer of 1938. Buck had picked Irv tohelp because he had been instrumental in catching and convictingthe murderer of Margaret Wilson, just three years prior, and at theinsistence of Irv had allowed Will (Bill) to come along.Along Came Bill, is a fast moving thriller that will keep youwanting more. It is a sequel to Gotcha! and most of the samecharacters help out in solving the murder of Shirley McBride.&quote;