A pop star's death puts Los Angeles PI Shell Scott on the hit list in the mystery series with more than 40 million copies in print.
With a national election going on, Shell Scott's timing might have been less than perfect. Perhaps he did prevent the victory for the shoo-in candidate, but a lot of strange things were happening. There was Polly Plank, whom he encountered in her psychiatrist's office in her birthday suit. What about the American singing idol Johnny Tray, who turned up dead? And of course Joe Rice, leader of the West's underworld, who wanted Shell under the world too—six feet under.
The Trojan Hearse is the 28th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.