The Ivory Coast Puzzle — Skoot Larson

A body has been slashed to death in a motel room locked from the inside. The windows are painted shut, so how did the murderer get out? Plus the fact that the slashed body is infected with the deadly Ebola virus! The victim is an artist visiting from Finland to promote a series of paintings he's made of war and bloodshed in Africa, and an unfinished canvas in the locked room is of a beautiful African woman, who is also nowhere to be found. The Rockport Police are baffled until private detective Dave Holman volunteers to help them find an answer. Sworn to protect the motel owner where the body was found, Dave Holman travels far beyond his Texas base looking for answers.