New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery - a blend of suspense, humor and some very strange characters. "Nothing ever happens in Pharaoh, Texas.... Drunks and missing auto parts headline the local crime wave until a barking dead dog shows up in millionaire Max Coomer's backyard. Then Coomer himself is discovered frosty cold and very dead. . That's just the beginning of the mayhem that erupts in a sleepy Texas town - and the start of temporary constable Jack Track's nightmarish pursuit of a maniac who doesn't like anyone in Pharaoh, Texas." SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-312109636.