| Deathstorm is Gillespie s eighth mys-tery this one featuring Ralph Simmons,a retired newspaper executive andamateur sleuth.Ralph and his young friend EileenEngelhart are guests aboard a yachtsailing in Long Island s Little Neck Baywhen a deafening explosion eruptsfrom the mainland, followed by a thickcolumn of smoke rising from theEngelhart residence. Frantic with fear,they return to find Eileen s father--aneccentric inventor--dead as the blazeturns into a firestorm, sweeping acrossthe wealthy community of Savage Point.Local residents who resented the odd-ball irlventor, maintain the devastationwas caused by the old man tinkeringwith chemical agents. But her daughterbelieves otherwise and Ralph is willingto investigate furthe~ Soon he stumbleson disturbing information concerningEngelhart s connection to a fellow con-script in the German army during WorldWar II and the Holocaust.Then more strands of evidence accu-mulate. A white rose was apparentlysent to the old man just before hisdemise. And when Ralph meets thewidow of a titled Englishman and herson, another killing occurs in a violentNew Year s Eve rainstorm.This tingling story of murders masquer-ading as acts of God charts the down-fall of an upper class family whose bur-ied past is only now beginning to churnup disastrous consequences. |
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