The Black and the Red: (A Homer Evans Mystery)

Trust Homer Evans, that epicurean among detectives, to chose Las Vegas, Nevada, as the newest field for his unorthodox investigations into murder and assorted skullduggeries. In the American capital of sky-high gambling and lavish entertainment, of explosions--temperamental and nuclear--of gangsters and atomic scientists, the imperturbable sleuth unravels a mystery that is a sinister as it is wildly fanciful.

The touch of madness in Elliot Paul's method adds to his extravaganzas of crime the...