Jack Marshall

Nothing's Certain but Death Jack Marshall

In 1940, Leland Langtry ran off with his redheaded secretary and $10,000 in company funds--or so everyone believed.

Forty years later, Langtry's remains are found in a boarded-up silver mine tunnel. And as the knife still jammed between his ribs had belonged to his partner in Lang-Star Mining, Tom Starbuck--also long since dead--a jury decided that Tom had killed Langtry.

But Tom's widow, Delia, resists the verdict and persuades that very private investigator Conan Flagg to find the real murderer--an impossible job made tougher by the curious reticence of nearly everyone in town whenever Leland Langtry is mentioned....