The Man In The Middle
| By Ferguson Findley | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #250 |
| Release Month | 1953 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Come Blonde, Came Murder |
| Followed by | Doctor In Buckskin |
- Author: Ferguson Findley
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #250
- Year: 1953
Book Description
In New York City late that night, three men could be seen walking crosstown from Times Square. The three of them seemed to be drunk, and the two men on the outside had their arms around the man in the middle. But the man in the middle was dead.
Big Vince MacLowrie, an ex-marine with a plastic hand to replace the one he had lost in Korea, saw the men and mistook one of the live ones for his old pal, Marine Captain Eddie Jackson. But it wasn't Eddie at all.
As soon as Vince was out of sight, the two men dumped their burden and went their separate ways, but not far. One waited in the shadows; the other, who Vince thought was Jackson, came back, searched the body for something, and luckily for him, scurried away in a cab. The man in the shadows was waiting to kill him.
Ferguson Findley's mystery is a fast, tough police thriller with a New York setting. The cops are only secondary in this one, though, the big role being assigned to Vince MacLowrie. When his old friend Eddie is killed, Vince decides to take the law into his own hands - or rather, into the hook he sometimes substitutes for his plastice hand.
