After All, Murder is Murder by Hugh McClintock
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Set in Dallas in 1980, this novel is a twisting, stimulating mystery that keeps you guessing from beginning to end. In the midst of the primeval home computer industry, Peter Francis “Fran” Degeorge is leading his fledgeling Edgecom Data Company to ever greater success. But while recovering in the hospital after open heart surgery, he dies unexpectedly. The doctors say it was a random and unforeseeable medical anomaly.
Hummel Osgood, Fran's brother-in-law, swiftly cons Fran's wife into giving him control of Edgecom. When Osgood seeks to make a quick fortune by taking Edgecom's stock public, A. J. MacRae, Fran's best friend and most trusted employee, suspects that Fran's death was not accidental.
Although A. J. lacks hard evidence, he manages to convince Detective Lenore (Lenny) Deemer to investigate.
So . . . . was Fran’s death accidental, or was it murder? And if it was, whodunnit?
A.J.'s hot, intimate relationship with Lenny provides spice, and his first-person narrative is liberally sprinkled with subtle humor.
McClintock’s stint in a Dallas company like Edgecom enabled him to create the novel's multi-textured, historically accurate portrait of the beginnings of the home computer industry. And his work as baker, machinist, airman, butcher, engineer, merchant, and humor columnist gave him the broad experience to populate it with a rich variety of complex, dynamic characters.
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