Accident . . . or murder? A Continental rams the back of a gasoline rig, and in the ensuing pile-up two people die. One of them is Amy Steele, beautiful wife of Jim Steele, a Texas oil millionaire. Eight months later, police find the remains of a thermos jug containing coffee drugged with a sedative. Someone had wanted Amy Steele to crash. Now eccentric attorney John Lloyd Branson, counsel for the wealthy Steele family, and his beautiful assistant, Lydia Fairchild, are challenged by a crime as unfathomable as it is fascinating. Branson must find a way to force the killer's hand . . . before another "accident" occurs.

Murder by Impulse

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Meredith, Doris R.

Mystery

Fawcett

Charlton Price-Leigh III came to the Texas panhandle to win approval for a potentially life-threatening nuclear waste dump. What he got was a knife in the chest. The police have only one suspect -- the owner of the wheat field where Charlton's naked body was found. Luckily, his lawyer is John Lloyd Branson. Together with his beautiful assistant, Lydia Fairchild, Branson begins to unravel a conspiracy with consequences that ring across the whole state of Texas -- and beyond . . .

Murder by Deception

The Boulevard Butcher is preying on the prostitutes plying their trade on the night streets of Amarillo. With two women slaughtered, all the police have to go on is a taunting letter from the maniac. Now Texas lawyer John Lloyd Branson, hired by one of the victims before her demise, finds a familiar method in the madness -- that of one of history's most notorious serial killers. And if Branson's hunch is right, the last murder will be the most unspeakable . . .

Murder by Masquerade

It's no Halloween trick when mild-mannered Brad Hemphill -- curator of the Texas Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum -- materializes in a museum display in the dead of night. The meek young man is as dead as the dinosaur skeleton he's perched upon.While local legend says the museum is haunted by the spirit of a pioneer woman, only a human hand could have swung the blunt object that cracked the curator's skull. But as the police interrogate the eccentric museum staff in search of who?, peerless attorney John Lloyd Branson seeks to uncover the killer by asking why?The only thing missing from the carefully planned, cold-blooded crime is a motive. No one had reason to want poor Brad Hemphill dead . . . . At least no visible reason. So, with the aid of Lydia Fairchild, his trusted legal assistant, the flamboyant Branson undertakes his own investigation -- scaring up ghosts from the past and rattling family skeletons as he zeroes in on a secret so shocking it's worth killing for . . . .

Murder by Reference

When the most loathed man in Crawford County -- ruthless banker Rich Hansford -- is killed on the first day of the annual Panhandle Pheasant Hunt, the consensus is that whoever fired the shot deserves an award. But Sheriff Charles Matthews is determined to get to the bottom of things, even if it does seem that everyone in Crawford County had a motive to kill Hansford -- including Matthews himself . . .

Sheriff and the Pheasant Hunt Murders

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

An archaeologist spying on the midnight rites of a cult group inside an extinct New Mexico volcano is murdered -- felled by the brutal thrust of a prehistoric spear-throwing weapon called an atl-atl. All the evidence points to one of Sheriff Charles Matthews's own deputies, Raul Trujillo, as the killer. But Matthews doesn't buy it. And to prove his deputy's innocence, Matthews will take off his badge and step into a haunted southwestern landscape where vengeance is still a reason to kill . . .

Sheriff and the Folsom Man Murders

The Sheriff and the Branding Iron Murders

With cowboy artist Willie Russell brutally slain and the clues to his murder scarce, Sheriff Charles Timothy Matthews consults the story of the Santiago Crucifix, which vanished a century before, to begin his investigation. Reprint.

Ballantine Books

Who hated good ole boy Billy Joe Williams and beautiful seventeen-year-old Maria Martinez enough to kill them? One thing's certain: their murders, on the eve of the big Frontier Days celebration, send Richter-scale tremors through the Anglo community, and Sheriff Charles Matthews has to get results . . . and fast. There's no hard evidence, not even a murder weapon. But in gossipy Carroll, nothing and no one ever goes entirely unpunished. And the harder the guilty try to hide from the truth, the worse it's going to get.

Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders

"Don't miss D.R. Meredith's High Plains mysteries. Delightful characters, vast Texas landscapes, dandy yarns."TONY HILLERMANNobody approved of the preacher's wife--a truck-stop waitress. But when she was found murdered and plunked in the Christmas nativity scene dressed as the Virgin Mary, well that's too much. John Llloyd Branson agrees to defend the seemingly guilty minister, but John Lloyd is stuck with a client who refuses to discuss his actions. It will all lead to a spectacular courtoorm battle that pits the unflappable Branson against Amarillo's most formidable assistant D.A. And as the minister awaits his destiny, the murky secrets of the Church of the Holy Light are exposed to the bright light of day....

Murder by Sacrilege

Sheriff And The Folsom Man Mur

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