Presumed Dead (Larry Cole)
Beginning in 1901 with the disappearance of Katherine Rotheimer, daughter of the millionaire who founded Chicago's National Science and Space Museum, and Jim Cross, a man who tested experimental security weapons for Ezra Rotheimer, the museum has been a place of mystery and strange occurrences. During a drug bust on the museum's grounds, Police Commander Larry Cole is wounded. With the help of his detectives and two Chicago authors, Cole finds that 188 persons have vanished in and around the museum and orders an investigation. Set in 1997, this is more a tale of suspense than of mystery or horror. First-novelist Holton, a career policeman, has written a curiously disjointed story that takes about one third of the telling before hooking the reader, who blithely follows along until a real zinger of an ending. For popular collections.-Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Hts.University Hts. P.L.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.