Book Detective

It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty, and goitered, an expert with explosives and knives. Smonk hates horses, goats, and the Irish, and it's high time he was stopped. But capturing old Smonk won't be easy, and putting him on trial could have shocking and disastrous consequences, considering the terrible secret the citizens of Old Texas are hiding.

My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto

Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons

I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg

The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer

Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow

Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley

This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell

Point of No Return by John P. Marquand

Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge

Daughter of Silence by Morris West

The Plot by Irving Wallace

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley

A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow

A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin