The Chopper Case

All hell breaks loose in Little Bang Texas when two citizens are found shot to death in their luxury cars each with one hand missing chopped off One victim is the wife of TexNext Industries CEO Gideon Moore the other is Moore s chief financial officer Frank Winckelmann As reported by Gazette city editor John Wiltsey the tragedies first appear to implicate Moore a businessman who is already in serious professional and marital trouble But The Chopper Case as it is known locally soon becomes the epicenter of further fatalities and mysteries which involve a surprising number of logical suspects beautiful divorcees mistresses athletes executives rogue cops private eyes high tech engineers If the closing chapters of Lewis Kornfeld s ingenious fast paced novel lead you to believe its multiple manhunts and torrid love affairs just fade away without certifiable denouements well you might be right But then again you might be terribly wrong Longtime president of Radio Shack and father of the first personal computer to be widely retailed nationally the TRS 80 in 1977 Lewis Kornfeld turned to authoring after retiring as vice chairman of the then parent corporation Tandy Corp His first book To Catch a Mouse Make a Noise Like a Cheese a best selling primer on advertising and marketing was published by Prentice Hall later by the University of Texas Press and The Summit Group He has B A and M A degrees from the University of Denver and an honorary LHD degree from Boston University A native of Boston MA and a WWII Marine Corps officer he lives in Fort Worth TX His e mail address is lkornf88 msn com