Departure Delayed The Drowning Wire Author:Will Oursler, Marvin Claire Roy Marshall was afraid of John Wilson, and he had good reason for his fears. This Wilson went about always armed, mixed with criminal types in shady surroundings, had callously abandoned a bride, and was wanted by the cops for murder....AND..John Wilson was just another name for Roy Marshall himself! Roy didn't remember any of this, but the mo... more »re he probed into his past, the more it looked like the cops were right. But Roy was a guy who couldn't believe that a man with his principles could turn killer, loss of memory or not. So he determined to keep out of the clutches of both the homicide squad and the underworlds triggermen long enough to find out the real truth about John Wilson's lurid past. It took some tough doing, and it took a crack mystery writer like Will Oursler to tell it in DEPARTURE DELAYED......SIDE 2---THE DROWNING WIRE....Joe haugen had a couple of strikes against him before he even started. His murderer father had died in jail and he himself was notorious for his murderous temper. It was no wonder that when Joe walked into Wolfe Point that morning carrying the body of his partner over his shoulder, everyone was certain Joe must have done it. Especially after they found the evidence that seemed to prove it! Joe had to run for his life, with every man's hand raised against him and a shoot on sight posse at his heels. The only thing left for Joe to do was to stick his head into a tricky trap laid by a doubly treacherous killer. An ACE Original..« less