Retro

Walker has made a lot of friends - and more than a few enemies - in his years as a detective in Detroit, but he finds more trouble than he expected when he agrees to grant the deathbed wish of Beryl Garnet, a successful madam, for her son to get her ashes when she's gone. Walker successfully locates her son in Canada, where he has been evading the law since protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s, but no sooner has Walker settled back in Detroit that the news comes that Garnet's son is dead. Now Walker is the prime suspect. He has little choice but to find out who might have done the deed and tried to pin the blame on him...and in the process he discovers another murder, the one of 1940s boxer Curtis Smallwood, who happens to have been the dead man's father. Complicating matters, the two murders, fifty-three years apart, were committed with the very same gun. The same gun, in a place impossible for a gun to be.