Marker: A Crime Novel

by Lowell Cauffiel

He runs a $100-a-week tab at the Anchor Bar, keeps in touch with a friend who dealt weed in the Sixties, and sips bourbon from a Styrofoam cup on his drive home to the 'burbs. Now, Judge Nelson Connor of the Third Circuit Court is about to pay for his sins--big time. A fast-talking criminal has found one of His Honor's personal checks in the wrong place. Baiting his trap with a dead body, the con-man is going to shake down the judge. But Nelson Connor, a man on the brink of losing it all, will pull a surprise of his own. He's going to fight back.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Madhatter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellently plotted and paced noir set in Detroit in 1990's. Characterization is excellent, the felons are smart in some ways and stupid in others, and the protoganist's struggle with alcoholism is very believable.