The Iron Spiders Author:Baynard H. Kendrick End Flap: A murder thriller — When Donald Buchanan, a young electrical engineer, got the job of running the power plant for that eccentric millionaire, Aaron Tuckerton, he expected to have a pleasant winter in Florida on Broken Heart Key. But from the moment the beautiful mulatto servant, Julie, is killed by the voracious barracuda in front of ... more »Donald's eyes, until the last of those strange harbingers of death--The Iron Spiders--is found, and the mystery solved, Donald is faced with a series of baffling events and horrible murders which tax the detective powers of all those on the island, including Deputy Sheriff Stan Rice.
Against the weird tropical background, the blinding sun, and the shattering storms of the Florida keys, Baynard Kendrick, author of the prize-winning BLOOD ON LAKE LOUISA, has written an exciting story of death in the southland--with a solution to the mystery as ingenious as it is unexpected.« less