Robert Stoneman

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.

A stunt car racing team gets involved in a madcap cross-country auto race that is supposed to determine the disposition of a family fortune.