Time of Death — Frank A. Perdue

When Alex O'Bannion disappeared from a windswept battlefield in the South Pacific, it set in motion a series of events that altered the lives and destiny of a young Jewish woman, a mysterious neighbor, a beautiful invalid, a reporter, a mob boss, a police sergeant, and others, including a killer.
All these characters had one thing in common; none of them had ever met the young marine before he vanished on Guadalcanal in 1942.