The Hastened to the Grave

The bestselling author of Son and Doc investigates a chilling series of alleged murders that exposes the sinister underworld of Gypsy culture in America<P>In June of 1994 the Oakland Tribune cracked a story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly well-to-do and in each case had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family -- the Tene Bimbos.<P>Fay Faron also known as Rat Dog Dick a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay Area was contacted by a lawyer to investigate the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed she was being swindled out of her hilltop mansion by a young man named Danny Tene. Within days the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune. Olsen chronicles Faron's hunt for Danny Tene his mother Mary Steiner and his beautiful sister Angela -- a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women whose property -- and possibly whose lives -- the family allegedly stole.