Boobytrap (Nameless Detective Mystery) - Tapa dura

Emotionally exhausted from the events surrounding his partner's suicide, "Nameless" welcomes the chance for a quiet vacation that comes when San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Patrick Dixon proposes that the burnt-out detective drive Dixon's wife and son to their summer cottage on a remote High Sierra lake. In exchange, "Nameless" will have a week's free use of a neighboring cabin. The same week, unknown to both the assistant D.A. and "Nameless, " also among the vacationers at Deep Mountain Lake is a recently paroled explosives expert, Donald Michael Latimer. The timing is not coincidental, for Latimer has meticulously devised a warped plan for revenge against the men who sent him to prison. His viciously ingenious boobytraps have already claimed the lives of two of his intended victims, and at Deep Mountain Lake he has lined up his next three targets: Pat Dixon, Dixon's twelve-year-old son, and "Nameless" himself.

The twenty-fifth case for"Nameless" begins with an attractive from San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Patrick Dixon. In exchange for driving Dixon's wife and son to the remote High Sierra lake where the family has a summer cottage",Nameless" will be given a weeks free use of a neighboring cabin. Emotionally exhausted from the events surrounding his partner's suicide, he readily accepts.

Unknown to either man, one of the other visitors to Deep Mountain Lake is Donald Michael Latimer, a recently-paroled explosives expert with a warped plan for revenge against those who sent him to prison. His viciously ingenious boobytraps have already claimed the lives of two of his intended victims. His next targets are Pat Dixon, then Dixon's twelve-year-old son, and finally "Nameless" himself.

A harrowing tale that builds relentlessly to an edge-of-the-chair climax, Boobytrap is a triumph for both "Nameless" and his creator.