The Ditched Blonde

Adams, Harold. The Ditched Blonde: A Carl Wilcox Mystery. New York: Walker and Company, 1995.
ISBN: 0802732631.

The Carl Wilcox mysteries are set in the midwest in a slightly vague time when folks still drove around in Model T's and one could travel and work temporarily as a sign painter in small towns. But Carl Wilcox, who never looks for trouble, yet always seems to find it, has a reputation for solving mysteries. And while people may not be ready to pay him directly to solve the mysteries, they may find him a job that will pay him while he does.

In The Ditched Blonde Wilcox is painting signs in Greenhill, South Dakota, when he is asked, or perhaps it isn't that direct, to help solve a four year old death. Genevieve was a vivacious and slightly mysterious girl who was run over by a car--twice. No solution was found at the time, yet now, four years later, some folks hope that Wilcox can find an answer. Others hope he won't.

157 pp.