Sneaky People: A Novel

The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer dressed in his natty white flannels baby-blue shirt striped tie tan-and-white shoes and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress Laverne a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops fried potatoes and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere long-gartered silk stockings and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.