Q As In Quicksand Author:Lawrence Treat Recently discharged GI Martin Folger becomes involved in a case of who-died-first in a car wreck he witnessed years before; his testimony could change the outcome of the inheritance battle between two powerful lock-maker brothers and the widow of a third brother, who died in the wreck. Trying to unravel the mystery of the wreck while avoiding be... more »ing served to testify, Martin gets involved in more deaths and becomes a prime suspect just as he tries to start his new life as a civilian and also avoid falling for the possibly soon-to-be-very-rich widow.« less
An ok example of a golden age mystery more of the hard-boiled than cozy type. It's a little longer than it needed to be and unusual in that the murder doesn't happen for a hundred pages and it's not clear who to root for, the detectives or the hero.