The Norton Case

In this second Leland E. Denton, Esq. mystery-thriller, clinets are dying on both sides of the never-ending Norton litigation. And it looks like murder. But it's creepier than that--Denton is being pursued by assorted stalkers, including Ojibwe Spirit Warriors. Then there's Lilly Deerfoot who exerts stange powers over him. In the meantime, Wisconsin Attorney General Richard Elkin is running for governor, but he receives a note threatening to disclose he's Al Capone's grandson and might have been infected by Capone's syphilis. Could the blackmailer be a Norton? That's what Elkin thinks. Denton and his assistants, ex-marine sergeant Charlotte Logan and Afa Tavita, a one-armed Samoan ex-wrestler, try desperately to solve the myserious deaths before the next body falls, but the dots won't connect. Are the Norton heirs killing one another? Or did they run afoul of Ojibwe taboos? Why did one Norton heir die while scuba diving in a sunken Native American village? And what about the one whose car plunged off a cliff? Then there's the Norton aunt, stabbed forty-seven times. Who's next? Attorney General Elkin puts his chief investigator, Alan Sanger, on the blackmailer's trail. But Sanger hs his own agends, one that feeds his bizarre sexual appetite. Denton struggles on until past and present merge in a crescendo of red violence.