Death Is Waiting: Saving Mae Carter

Dadgummit! Why is it that every criminal who runs afoul of Baltimore chief of police Paul Marlowe scampers down south of US 1 and ends up in Lenoir County North Carolina where he becomes the problem of Lenoir County district attorney Newt Wildman? It is 1933 and the South is full of wannabe John Dillingers. The cast of thieves and murderers includes two larcenous bank officers a beautiful female bank employee and a German immigrant stooge down on his luck and willing to commit two brazen murdersfor the right price of course. The chase is on in this eleventh tale of the popular Coastal Plain Mystery Series.