It wasn't bad enough that a ten-year-old kid had beaten him at basketball in the morning. Next Albert Samson was being badgered by a humourless prospective client. Was he, in fact, the cheapest private detective in Indianapolis? Did his daily rate include expenses or did he try to claim those on top? Expenses were indeed extra, but Samson was still a bargain and he got the case. The client's son-in-law had been charged with murder. But she didn't want him exonerated - he had certainly pulled the trigger. What she wanted was evidence she could use to make her daughter see what a dead loss her Vietnam vet husband was. Sure, he'd been a hero over there, but this was Indianapolis, and real life, and now. Real life is simple, right? Not this time, not when Samson discovers that his questions do not lead to satisfactory, or safe, answers.

The way we die now

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Michael Z. Lewin

Thrillers & Suspense

Perennial Library

Ask the right question

Lt. Leroy Powder returns. Lieutenant Leroy Powder, in charge of the Indianapolis Police Missing Persons Bureau, investigates several mysterious disappearances while breaking in a new sergeant, Carollee Fleetwood, who is temporarily confined to a wheelchair.

Hard Line

Mystery

Harper&Row

<p>Fallen on hard times, seedy and cynical Indianapolis gumshoe Albert Samson leaps with hardly a look when he's hired by a frantic woman trying to gain access to her brother's locked hospital room</p>

The Silent Salesman (Albert Samson Mystery)

Macmillan

<p>Social worker Adele Buffington's work problems, ranging from office politics to an adoption racket, are complicated by the attentions of ambitious Indianapolis detective Homer Profitt, who also complicates Adele's romance with private eye Albert Samson</p>

And Baby Will Fall: An Adele Buffington Murder Mystery

Worldwide Library

One of the first modern regional mysteries, this novel introduced the low key private eye, Albert Samson. Published in 1971, the book was the first of more than a dozen mysteries set by the author in Indianapolis, the most recent being in 2008. Ask the Right Question gave him the first of his three Edgar nominations. He's also received a Mystery Masters Award, a Raymond Chandler Society award and a Maltese Falcon Society award. The Samson novels have been published in a dozen countries. "Lewin - or whatever his (or her) real name might be - has come up with a pip of a mystery." -Paul Robbins, UPI

Ask the Right Question

Berkley Publishing

The Silent Salesman: An Albert Samson Mystery (Mysterious Press)

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

No Exit Press

Called By A Panther

Pan/Macmillan

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