Gary Peterson’s Reviews > The D.A. Holds a Candle > Status Update

Gettin' good... Madge is definitely Marcia Wilkins--why doesn't Doug realize that? Emil Watkins obviously murdered (bruise behind ear), not an accidental death. The deadbeat dad is... young Stapleton or young Grace? Not sure yet but leaning towards Stapleton with sister Inez covering it up. Murder will out in the next 90 pages!

Read chapters 1-3 at Kugler when Cindy had her eyes operated on. I was hooked, even if it's a banal story of a corrupt roadhouse and gambling. ESG makes the reader care. In chapter 5 and sad letters of wayward daughter of an avenging father who gassed himself on accident. Tragic stuff. Giant leap forward from Perry's Shoplifter Shoe disaster, which I suspect was an anomaly.