The Stalin Stain — W.H. Mefford

Moscow police investigator Illya Podipenko is in big-time trouble! An attractive and frightened young woman suddenly accosts him in New York's Central Park, claiming that the Russian mob just murdered her grandfather and they are now chasing her. The flummoxed investigator must now protect the irrepressible young girl's life while solving clues to uncover billions in gold and diamonds once secretly hidden away by Russia's mass-murdering dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Along the way, the harried Moscow investigator uncovers shocking truths that change the course of history about how Stalin really died and that Podipenko's own father, the famous Red Army hero marshal, not only was personally responsible for Stalin's death but also was an American spy!

Author W. H. Mefford was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a journalism graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. A former news reporter, he is an award-winning marketing consultant specializing in themed entertainment and special events. He is the author of seven books: Trump, 10 Years With the Bengals (non-fiction), plus five mystery/suspense novels, including Games of 80, The President's Brother, Thunder Down Under, The Sydney Access, The Rasputin Stain, and The Stalin Stain. Currently living in Cincinnati, Mr. Mefford, his wife Marnie, and three children-Allyssa, Michael, and Matthew-lived in Sydney, Australia, for four years in the mid-1980s before returning to the U.S.