A Little Neighborhood Murder — A.J. Orde

A GOOD SCAM IS HARD TO FIND. AND IT'S MURDER TO KEEP IT GOING.

When Jason Lynx's neighbors, George and Betty Whitney, are murdered, Jason consoles himself with the knowledge that he always liked their dogs better than he liked the Whitneys anyway. But the hostile police officer in charge is determined to involve him, preferably as perpetrator; and Jason, an addicted puzzle solver, begins to find the case fascinating. Who'd have thought George Whitney, an employee of a religious radio station, had it in him to attract a killer?

Aided by endearing detective Grace Willis, Jason approaches the sinister secret that made the boring Whitneys so deadly dangerous. He doesn't yet know that the terrible secret, when liberated, will coil back to strike him through the heart....