Murder Book: A Texas Murder Trilogy A Lonely Graves Series

By Lana Payne Barnett

This thrilling Murder Book by true crime writer Lana Payne Barnett features another trilogy of Texas homicides. The case of cocaine addicted Robert Blake who murders Fred Conner and dumps the body on a lonely Texas highway is a fascinating read. The hunt for the fugitive is an exciting one as J. Frank Norfleet pulls out all the stops to find the person who murdered his friend.Blake is eventually arrested, tried, convicted and executed. While on death row he pens an account of his exploits that become the basis for the most popular Broadway play of 1930 in New York City.Tex Thornton was lauded as the most daring oil well firefighter in the world, everyone expected he would meet his demise at one of the many fires he fought around the world. Then, one morning a motel maid opened the door to a second rate motel room on Route 66 in Amarillo and found a horrifying sight, the bloody, bludgeoned body of the famous firefighterDusty Miller was a charismatic attorney who in 1950 represented the killer of Tex Thornton. Miller was known as "The Dean of Panhandle Lawyers." But, he had a dirty little secret, more than 25 years before the Thornton trial, Miller had sat at the defense table in another murder trial, not as an attorney but as a defendant in a sordid mystery that included a pretty mistress, a dead husband and tons of evidence pointing to the popular counselor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523381590
• ISBN13: 9781523381593
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"