the detective Author:roderick thorp At the end of WW2,Joseph Leland,a celebratedacein the European air war,comes home to resume his career with the police dept.in a northeastern city in the United States. The qualities of intelligence,seriousness,and leadership that brought him distinction in the war gain for him executive rank,second-in*command of detectives in the touchiest and... more » busiest precinct downtown; and his success reaches a peak when he achieves a daring solution to a puzzling and brutal homosexual murder. At the same time his personal life collapses and he is forced to make decisions that only a few years before were unthinkable for him. Leland quits his job and goes to another city where he attempts to rebuild his life. He opens a private detective agency,and accepts as a client a young woman whose husband's recent death has been adjudged suicide. The events surrounding the man's death are suspicious- the young woman believes her husband might have been murdered.« less