The Way We Die Now Author:Charles Willeford Hoke Moseley was really getting into the "cold cases" he'd been assigned -- and then Commander Bill Henderson dropped into Hoke's office and told him to let his beard grown for a couple of days. Henderson couldn't say why, only that Major Willie Brownley, the division chief, had something up his sleeve. — Hoke went back to puzzling out what an e... more »lectronic garage door opener might have to do with a three-year-old murder. But the major's request nagged at him. What was so secret? And on top of that, when he got home he discovered that the man who had just bought the house across the street was a fellow he'd had put away for murder -- and there he was, sitting on his lawn staring at Hoke's house.« less