Publisher's Synopsis
An advertising salesman facing embezzlement charges takes his son and disappears. As Ace Herron, the crime reporter for a Vermont newspaper, pursues the case, the mystery grows deeper. Who is this man? What happened to the boy? Where did the money go? And does Ace have a rival for his wife's affections? The answers to these and other questions lead Ace on a journey to uncover dark secrets of the past, deeply hidden secrets which can't be kept forever. Based on actual events investigated by the author, himself a reporter. From the acclaimed author of "Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula" comes the first in a contemporary mystery series, the Ace Herron mysteries.
