The contrary blues
Subtitle: an Owen Allison mystery
By: John Billheimer
Edition: The Mystery Company edition.
Publisher: The Mystery Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781932325393
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Owen Allison (Fictitious character); Fiction; Government investigators
Description: Contrary, West Virginia, a sleepy town with failing coal mines, has an urgent need for revenue. A federal grant for a non-existent bus system meets that need, until a government auditor consumes too much white lightning and dies under mysterious circumstances. When the Department of Transportation sends Owen Allison to sort things out, Owen decides to let the phony bus subsidy continue until another body surfaces and Owen fears that he may be the next to die. This Mystery Company edition restores to print the first novel in the Owen Allison series.