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The Skeleton's Knee (Joe Gunther, Bk 4) (Large Print)
The Skeleton's Knee - Joe Gunther, Bk 4 - Large Print Author:Archer Mayor A SLOW DEATH — Vermont hermit Abraham Fuller kept mum on his gunshot wound. When it finally causes a fatal aneurysm some twenty years later, Detective Joe Gunther decides to investigate -- and, for the first time, must leave his rustic Brattleboro beat. — The trouble starts in Fuller's garden where Gunther's crew digs up an artificial knee... more » joint... attached to a very real human skeleton. Worse yet, the victim had been murdered. When a sniper machine-guns the hearse bringing the skeleton to the morgue, Gunther's first step is clear: find the manufacturer of the steel knee. It will mean trading Vermont for Chicago, where big city cops snub small-town gumshoes, too many people are hiding dark pasts, and a deadly trail could lead to a fresh new corpse -- Gunther's own.« less