Title: The Little Dog Laughed (#8 in the Dave Brandstetter series) Author: Joseph Hansen Published by: Henry Holt and Company, 1986 ISBN: 0-8050-0083-6 [hardcover, 184 pages]
When Adam Streeter's blind, teenage daughter stumbles over his dead body in his expensive marina condominium, she's sure he shot himself. So are the police. But the company that insured his life thinks otherwise, and it sends in crack death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to check out the case.Brandstetter soon comes to share their doubts. A foreign correspondent estranged from an alcoholic and desperate wife, Streeter was working secretly on a story he figured would be the newsbreak of the decade. All that his associates knew was that it had something to do with the tragic little Central American country of Los Inocentes.
But Streeter's notes have disappeared. His files have been stripped. His nearest neighbors have vanished. And what has become of his legman -- and of the cash Streeter entrusted to him?
Pushing more deeply into the case, Brandstetter unearths three more deaths seemingly linked to Streeter's: There is the young Latino found murdered in a weedy irrigation ditch, the cub reporter killed in the steamy green hills of Los Inocentes, and the contraband pilot dead in a plane crash near the Mexican border. Little by little, Brandstetter narrows the hunt for the killer -- only to find he himself has become the hunted, his enemy more powerful and ruthless than any he has faced before.
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