Authors Cary O'Dell and Richard L. Sprehe lead a literary investigation of a brutal cold-case murder. In May 1975, in the small Southern Illinois town of Centralia, the body of one of its best-known residents, John Shakespeare, was found nearly nude, bound, and shot, execution-style, in the basement of his home. Shakespeare, sixty-nine, was a wealthy bachelor, an eccentric, an heir to the Shakespeare fishing fortune, a world-renowned collector of vintage cars, and, maybe, a possessor of a few secrets. Despite the victim being well liked in the community, state and local police, and eventually even the FBI and Interpol, found a plethora of suspects while investigating the crime. Could it have been his longtime business associate? Or the mysterious hitchhiker seen in town just days before his body was found? Or a long-ago name from his past?

À propos de l'auteur

O'Dell, Cary

Cary O’Dell is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and the author of the books: Women Pioneers in Television and June Cleaver was a Feminist! Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, as well as four other titles. He works for the Library of Congress and resides in Culpeper, Virginia.