Sam McCain series by Ed Gorman (#1, 3-5, 
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Overview: Ed Gorman is the beloved author of dozens of mystery novels. He has received the Shamus Award, the Spur Award, and the International Fiction Writers Award for his contributions to the genre. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
The Day the Music Died #1
Sam McCain, an impoverished young lawyer in 1950s Iowa, is summoned from his grief over the death of Buddy Holly to investigate a murder-suicide.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow #3
In this charming, expertly crafted new mystery set in the twilight of Iowa’s 1950s, fledgling lawyer Sam McCain is dancing to a different tune when he discovers that the beautiful blonde who’s been tracking him in her black Ford convertible is interested in more than his red ragtop. She’s Lila Leigh Mulchaey, and McCain’s in love. Two problems, though, darken McCain’s mood: Lila is pregnant, and Philip Mulchaey, her father-an outspoken advocate of left-wing causes who’d been fired from his job in the State Department during the McCarthy trials-stands at the centre of the political storm surrounding the upcoming visit of Nikita Eruschev to Iowa. Then Philip Mulchaey turns up dead. That he was murdered for his politics, everybody, including McCain’s sometime employer, the imperious Judge Esme Anne Whitney, assumes McCain, however, is nor so sure. Murder’s usually more personal in Black River Falls.
Save the Last Dance for Me #4
Shamus-winner Gorman’s fourth nostalgia-ridden Sam McCain novel (after The Day the Music Died), set in Black River Falls, Iowa (pop. 27,300), during the summer of 1960, has to rank as one of the more good-natured mysteries in memory. His wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly but much abused hero, a part-time lawyer and part-time PI, gets hired by the town judge to investigate the murder of John Muldaur, a local fundamentalist preacher who used live rattlesnakes to test the "purity" of his flock, after someone doses the preacher’s bottle of Pepsi with strychnine. When he wasn’t sleeping with the wife of one of his congregation, Muldaur was conducting a vigorous campaign to expose the conspiracy of Zionists and Roman Catholics to take over the world. Gorman has a lot of fun at the expense of his half-witted bigots. McCain’s orders are to find Muldaur’s killer before the arrival of presidential candidate Richard Nixon, who’s on a campaign tour and due to deliver a speech in Black River Falls. A stupid sheriff and the fanatical hillbillies who revere Muldaur’s name don’t make McCain’s task any easier. Gorman delivers an intelligent and plausible solution to the crime, while the killer proves to be an unexpected but logical choice good for a goose bump or two. If the book’s a bit thin on substance, it’s a fast read with the best cast of comical country characters this side of Dogpatch.
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool #5
"Things go as wrong as love in a rock-‘n’-roll song for dangerous, young David Egan when he finds himself charged with the murder of the pampered but seriously disturbed daughter in the wealthy Griffin family of Black River Falls. They go fatally wrong the night that Egan crashes his black Mercury into a bridge at ninety miles an hour in a drag race outside of town – by no accident, it would appear, as the Merc’s brake line had been cut." "Struggling lawyer and sometime private eye Sam McCain finds himself, not unusually, hauled into the investigation by the incorrigible Judge Esme Ann Whitney, who continues to make no attempt to conceal her disdain for the local police and their khaki-clad chief Cliffie Sykes, Jr. While Sam manages to establish a critical connection between the two victims easily enough, the solution to the case more than eludes him the mellow autumnal afternoon that he stumbles on a third: Brenda Carlyle, wife of a former all-American, her once robust body lying lifeless in the last suds of her bath." Jealous husbands, philandering spouses, jilted girlfriends, outraged parents, a long-suffering wife – Sam does not want for suspects. Or for clues. It’s the conclusive evidence that surprises him and that frostily ends the Indian summer in Iowa 1961.
Ticket to Ride #8
1965: America’s favorite small-town detective Sam McCain must solve the murder of two old friends against the backdrop of America’s cultural revolution.
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