Ken Shannon #5

Ken Shannon, the crime-busting private eye, takes a reluctant evening at the carnival with his secretary to shake off his nerves—until a man plummets from the Ferris wheel, and what looked like an accident starts smelling like murder. With the dead man's widow terrified, a show owner willing to pay big money for answers, and a wrestler with a dangerous temper prowling the midway, Shannon finds himself tangled up in a case where everyone at the carnival has something to hide.

Ken Shannon takes on a baffling case when a desperate man claiming to be Homer Langman walks into his office—a man who insists everyone else knows him as Harry Bagley, despite the wallet and clothes in his possession. As Shannon digs into the mystery, he discovers that Homer's entire world—his store, his home, even his wife—has vanished without a trace, leaving no official record that Homer Langman ever existed. When Shannon finally tracks down the one person who should recognize Homer, the truth becomes even more twisted than anyone expected.

Ken Shannon takes on a high-paying bodyguard job for Dr. Charles Ross, a wealthy psychiatrist—but arrives to find his new client already dead, with a check made out to Ken still unsigned on the desk. Now the detective must wade through the doctor's shadowy world of disturbed patients and bitter ex-wife to unmask a killer with plenty of motives and a chilling nickname.