When Jon Brand is brutally murdered by the 'cross killers' and his family demands justice, Sheriff Jeb Moses is forced to team up with a shady Pinkerton agent to catch this group of vicious killers as the body count rises. Reprint.

Murder and mystery abound as Orson Welles directs an all-Negro production of Macbeth in 1936 Harlem. A Sassafras Winters/Chinaman mystery. Harlem, 1936. Orson Welles is a 20-year-old prodigy directing an all-Negro Macbeth for the WPA in Harlem. But Welles has a problem. His theatre, the Lafayette, is being picketed by angry Harlemites, wrongly convinced by the local Communist Party that he is producing minstrel Shakespeare. So angry, in fact, that Welles is receiving 10 death threats a day. And tensions only increase after one of Welles' actors, Ben Kanter, is arrested for murdering a white socialite seen stepping out with Kanter's girlfriend. Kanter swears he is innocent, but can't prove it. Welles needs protection until opening night, when the world will see he is actually creating theatrical history. Enter Sassafras Winters and Chinaman, the mystery-adventure genre's newest detective heroes. Winters, a retired Chicago Cubs pitcher, is struggling to launch a new career as a private detective. He is ably (if not always happily) accompanied by Chinaman, his enigmatic valet, possessor of a trunk-load of Ph.D.s and a knack for being at the right place at the right time. Being hired by the WPA could be Winters' big break...if he can exonerate Kanter and keep Welles alive until opening night. And that isn't going to be easy.

Product Description: The first critical review of bestselling author Clive Cussler, the current grand-master of adventure literature and creator of Dirk Pitt, one of the most popular and influential series heroes of the past half century. This review features an overview of Pitt, Pitt's supporting characters and Cussler's other series heroes, an examination of Cussler's thematic preoccupations and possible influences from pulps, movies and television, a review of his most important adventures such as Raise the Titanic! and Iceberg and a look at adaptations of Cussler's adventures in other media...read more