Review: A Fun Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
Trace #3: “When Elephants Forget” by Warren Murphy.  When the son of a mobster, Nick Armitage is murdered. Devlin Tracy is sent to New York to investigate. The boy was insured for half a million dollars, and the Garrison Fidelity Insurance Company wants to make sure everything is on the up and up. There is several things confusing the case, least of all the mobster doesn’t appear to be concerned about the killer. Trace learns, too, that the boy was wearing a Richard Nixon mask when he was murdered. It wasn’t that Trace even wanted to go to New York on the case, but since his mother was coming to Los Vegas, he decided New York would be a vacation – and so did Chico. It doesn’t take a lot of brains for the reader to figure this one out, but Chico does have to help Trace out. Another good plot regardless, and, as always, the dialogue is the best part of Warren Murphy’s writing.