A Corpse for a Candidate Author:Michael Geller Second in Bud Dugan series. — When New York's Mayor Bradley withdrew his bid for re-election, it left the field wide open for Amanda Mellis, beautiful and intelligent Cultural Affairs Commissioner, and her opponent Fullerton Mack, charismatic leader of the black community. It was a "go-for-the-jugular" campaign, and the outcome was anybody's gues... more »s. The Amanda was found shot to death, and Lieutenant Bud Dugan and the detectives of the Priority Unit were called into action to find the murderer before the lid blew off the racially divided city. Dugan discovered that in the world of politics, every statement has at least two meanings, and every back is a target for a knife--or a bullet.« less