Murder Redrum: A Palindrome Mystery - Paperback

by Joan del Monte (Author)

High in his outrageous apartment over a brewery, a stock market genius plots four simultaneous bank robberies at one intersection. The police receive four alarms and ignore them thinking it has to be an error. The genius codes his plans with palindromes to hide them. In 1923, the abrasive dry laws only add more confusion to an already addled, overworked police department riven with the politically ambitious and inept criminal investigation department. Consequently, the solution of the crimes falls to a retired forensics cop, who is now a Chinese restaurant chef, and his protégé, who has family problems of his own with the dry laws. The robbers' escape seems inconceivable plus they have hostages. Only one thing is for sure: They aren't stopping for anything.

Author Biography

Writer, teacher, and entrepreneur, Joan Del Monte was a featured author during a Museum of Contemporary Art Show in Washington, D.C in 2007. She wrote an antiques' bibliography for the Los Angeles Public Library and taught a college course in mystery writing. When she is not rowing her boat through the Venice Canals where she lives, Joan indulges her passion for Italian cooking, aiding the Friends of the Venice Library, which she founded, or travelling to Humbolt where she finds inspiration for her writing.