The yard dog
By: Sheldon Russell
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Hook Runyon Mystery -- [bk. 1]; A Worldwide mystery; Worldwide mystery
Publisher: New York; Worldwide
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780373268900
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war camps; Fiction; Conspiracies; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners and prisons; History; Detective and mystery stories; Hook Runyon (Fictitious character); Camps de prisonniers de guerre; Romans, nouvelles; Conspiration; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Prisonniers et prisons; Prisoners of war
Description: Set in Oklahoma during World War II. When Spark Dugan, a "coal picker," is found dead in the rail yards that are close to a Nazi POW camp, local detective Hook Runyon decides Dugan's death is murder. He begins an investigation that quickly becomes dangerous, and little is as it first seems.
Notes: Originally published: New York, Minotaur Books, 2009.