Murder at the French Country Inn Author:Clyde Deighton Murder at the French Country Inn is an easy-read novel written by local, Clyde Deighton, who mirrors the plot to factual gangster history at the Inn. The book combines Deighton's imaginative characters with a historical gangsters appendix. -Little Town. Big Trouble. Jaded by divorce and big-city corruption, a former Chicago cop returns to his bo... more »yhood home and takes a job as a rural police chief. All he wants is a quiet life and the occasional stiff cocktail at his favorite haunt-a secluded lakeside resort that was once a gangster hideaway. Then trouble walks into the bar wearing a tight black skirt, a snowmobiling sniper takes aim, and there's murder at the French Country Inn. It's been a long, cold winter in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, but when crime heats up and passions flare, it's almost more than one man can handle...A tale of modern crime in a town filled with colorful characters...and echoes of the Roaring Twenties.« less