Murder in the WPA: (A Golden-Age Mystery Reprint)

by Alexander Williams

Overview

In the midst of a demonstration staged by sit-down strikers, WPA Administrator Henry Ireton is murdered at his desk. Ex-newspaperman Jim Moore has been sent from Washington to look into trouble in Ireton's district, and finds himself both the temporary new deputy administrator and sidekick to Lieut. Pietro Tonelli, the hard-boiled but human ace of the Homicide Squad, as they investigate the murder. The killer strikes again, but Moore and Tonelli discover further trouble as evidence arises that a secretive criminal organization has spread its tentacles throughout Ireton's district, threatening to spread nationwide. Politics and murder go hand in hand in Murder in the WPA.

Murder in the WPA was published in 1937. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616464158
Publisher:	Coachwhip Publications
Publication date:	03/26/2017
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

Editorial Reviews

Murder in the WPA by Alexander Williams is an unusual novel of murder and detection, suggested by events that are rating headlines in today's papers. The setting is the WPA office of a large city, where 250,000 men and women are facing a cut in the relief rolls. In the midst of a demonstration staged by sit-down strikers, Administrator Henry Ireton is murdered at his desk.

Outside his office demonstrators are resisting the efforts of guards and police to eject them. In the conference room next door is a group of supervisors, any one of whom has ample cause to murder the administrator. Into this turbulent picture walk Jim Moore, young WPA official from Washington headquarters, and Lieut. Pietro Tonelli, whom readers will recall as the brilliant and hard-boiled sleuth of Mr. Williams' previous novels.

While Reds and Fascists plot and counterplot, Moore and Tonelli unwind the twisted skein after a series of adventures even more baffling and exciting than the original murder.

(Honolulu Advertiser, 1937)

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