Then Hang All the Liars

DEATH COMES A-COURTIN'

Randolph Percy was by birth and by breeding a gentleman. His lucrative game was beautiful, rich ladies of a certain age. They loved his white-haired charm and the gracious manners that, even in the South, were passing away with their generation.

Then Percy began buzzing around an old family friend of Samantha Adams, investigative reporter for the Journal-Constitution, and newly returned to Atlanta. According to Sam's unladylike digging, Mr. Randolph Percy's company often proved hazardous to his lady friends' health, Except that this time it was to be Percy himself who succumbed to "old age"...

There was too much left unspoken, too much ugliness cropping up, the evidence of a dangerous and demented imagination. A poisoned puppy, a savaged doll and a buried, fifty-year-old scandal were exploding into... murder!