Occam’s Razor

James Maxwell Stuart, the CEO and founder of Western Pennsylvania Technologies has married out of his class to his beautiful and sexy wife Gloria. Stuart hears a noise downstairs and is instantly awake and grabs his gun. He is going to teach the burglar a lesson. There is a struggle and in the process Stuart is killed with his own gun.

Missus Stuart is a friend of the Mayor and tells the Mayor she wants the best Homicide Detective on the case, so Stan Jaworski is called to investigate the crime. To Stan it is just a robbery gone bad, but Gloria is beautiful and sexy and maybe she was having an affair, or maybe someone wanted James Maxwell Stuart out of the way so they could move in on Gloria.

Deputy Chief Linda Kertchbaum is visiting her Battalion Chiefs. She is visiting Battalion Two when an automatic fire alarm comes in for a grade school a few blocks away. She tells BC Two she will take it. It turns out to be an arson fire that is designed to kill the grade school children. Linda must come up with a plan to save the children and put out the fire even if it means stripping the rest of Pittsburgh of its fire protection.

She calls in Malcolm Greene and his partner Rich Mathews as well as Stan Jaworski. Stan tells her since no one died at the fire he can’t investigate the fire, he has the Stuart case.

There are two more fires. In the third as police arrive for an alarm and confront the gang members setting the fire, gunfire is exchanged one officer dies, a second is wounded, one gang member is dead and a second dies later that night. As it turns out the gang set fire to a Western Pennsylvania Technologies building were a top secret computer chip was being delivered to an Army General. He is killed in the fire and the chips are burned totally.

Now it is Jaworski on Linda’s case. The coincidence of the gang members burning this building is too much and Linda and Stan start looking into the people that work at West Pa Tech with the help of the FBI spy catchers. As it turns out the fate of the country and the world could be in danger if Linda and her team cannot solve this case and find the person responsible for these fires and murders.