Uneasy Lies the Dead

✍ Scribed by Chaber, M. E.; Crossen, Kendell Foster

• Book ID: 112313352
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

“I’d like you to find Thomas Rako.” That was Milo’s new assignment from Intercontinental Insurance: unearth the chief witness, a notorious mobster, who had vanished right in the middle of a Congressional investigation of the Carrier Workers Union, and bring him back alive—or Intercontinental would be poorer by a neat million dollars.

There were just two problems. Rako had disappeared seven years ago. And the combined forces of the F.B.I., local police in several states, and Congressional investigators had turned up very little for Milo to go on. He had one month before the statute of limitations came into effect, the time when Rako could officially be declared dead and the million dollars would have to be paid out.

With some March luck—and plenty of March skill—Milo follows a dim trail that crisscrosses the country from Cleveland to Washington to San Francisco, New York, and New Jersey, escorted by two of the country’s most efficient hired killers and the barely concealed threats of a powerful gangster turned businessman.

March fans—and newcomers to the March manner—will gobble up M. E. Chaber’s intriguing new adventure.

The twelfth Milo March adventure, Uneasy Lies The Dead has the same authenticity of setting and lively characterization that has made previous M. E. Chaber mysteries so popular. A prolific writer of novels, short stories, and articles, the author now lives in California.