Stranger Room - Ike Schwartz, Bk 4 Author:Frederick Ramsay A man is killed inside a locked room in Jonathan Lydell's antebellum mansion. And the death is eerily similar to an unsolved murder from 1864, when a guest was shot to death in the same room. Sheriff Ike Schwartz has no idea how the killer escaped from the stranger room -- which was locked from the inside and isn't connected to the rest ... more »of the house -- but he's determined to find out.
As Ike and his team dig deeper, the expose some ugly truths about Picketsville, Virginia. Lydell himself is a local history buff whose intolerance knows no limits, but is he a murderer? What about Lydell's daughter, who's "unavailable" for questioning? Ike's running out of time, and unless he finds the key to this locked-room murder, the killer may go free...again.« less