A Carrot for the Donkey: A Saxon Mystery (#3)

by Les Roberts

Overview

#3 in the Saxon mystery series. Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school graduation. Saxon, hired to bring her back home, follows the trail to the wide-open Mexican border town of Tijuana, where he confronts a brutal landowner and his beautiful wife, an arrogant matador, a tough and humorless Tijuana cop—and the most gruesome murder of his career.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014201452
Publisher:	Gray and Company, Publishers
Publication date:	04/06/2012
Series:	Saxon Mysteries , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	381 KB

About the Author

Les Roberts is the author of 15 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 9 other books of fiction. The past president of both the Private Eye Writers of America and the American Crime Writer's League, he came to mystery writing after a 24-year career in Hollywood. He was the first producer and head writer of the Hollywood Squares and wrote for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Jackie Gleason Show," and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," among others. He has been a professional actor, a singer, a jazz musician, and a teacher. In 2003 he received the Sherwood Anderson Literary Award. A native of Chicago, he now lives in Northeast Ohio and is a film and literary critic.

Editorial Reviews

Roberts is fine tuning his plotting skills with each new Saxon novel.

Booklist Review

Should cement Roberts’ reputation as one of the best mystery writers in the United States.

Scripps Howard