Gone to Glory

Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton had finally learned to hit. Or so it seemed to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler, a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father, was hired to prove that Pepper hadn't killed his sister with a baseball bat. A boyhood hero of Moroni's, Pepper was living, potbellied proof that the past, like everything else, just ain't what it used to be. While the Mormon's were using computers and private security men to keep tabs in their town, and Moroni's former girlfriend was pulling a paternity suit on Moroni's father, the case of the ex-shortstop and his murdered sister was growing more sinister all the time. With a religious fanatic, a slick Church lawyer, and an old ballplayer's lifelong dream involved, Moroni knew this was a story about how the road to glory was paved with blood...