Murder Most Strange — Dell Shannon

Aided by his men in the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery and Homicide Division, seasoned veteran Luis Mendoza bravely meets the tough challenge of big-city crime and violence. Working with faint clues, he and his detectives systematically break their most shocking and difficult cases to date. They track down a rapist and murderer who has clean good looks and the perfect ploy; unravel the motive behind a bloody double homicide/suicide with a bizarre twist; trap the perpetrator of a series of flawless robberies; get to the root of a young woman's baffling disappearance; learn the truth about the implausibly 'natural' death of a senator; and solve still other disturbing mysteries.