High Stakes Gamble

Book III...High Stakes Gamble...The slick and charming younger brother of the mayor of Mosquito Creek, Montana returns after ten years. On the run from some unsavory people, the card-shark's secret plan is just to lay low. However, the ruse of "going straight" begins to unravel when a retired local resident and vocal critic of the town manager is found dead. Gordon McKenna [13] realizes that in order to investigate the town manager the young detectives need a willing insider. With the mayor away on business, his brother has keys to the town hall offices and Gordon and Joey Salas [12] convince the uneasy gambler to help. Finding crucial evidence makes the mayor's brother a reluctant hero creating unexpected publicity and the attention of the very people he was trying to avoid.