A Dismal Thing to Do — Alisa Craig

THE MRS. IS MISSING

It's bad news for Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His wife's new car has been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere -- with nothing inside but her handbag and a faint odor of burning. And all he can turn up are more questions.

Where are the pieces of that blown-up truck? Who shot the young fellow riding home from the dance on his snowmobile? What's the awful vaudeville troupe's real act? Most pressing of all, is someone really trying to murder Madoc's wife?