Death and the Language of Happiness (A Cecil Younger Investigation)

Synopsis

The Fourth Entry To John Straley's Alaska P.i. Series Finds Cecil Younger With A Contract To Kill. Cecil Younger Is A Man That Takes Comfort In The Absurdity Of The Universe, And The Universe Is Obliging Him When He Gets A Call From His Lawyer And Psychiatrist, Who Offers Him A Job. A Client Wants To Hire Younger To Kill Someone. Though Common Sense Tells Him Murder Just Isn't A Good Career Move, His Finances Tell Him It Can't Hurt To Meet His Potential Client, Hoping He Can Succeed In Appeasing The Him--without A Dead Body. Joined By The Usual Cast Of Misfits--his Lawyer/psychiatrist Dickie Stein, His Girlfriend Jane Marie, And His Ward Todd--cecil Investigates A Murder That Brings Him Back To The Centralia Massacre Of 1919, An Event In Alaskan History That Seems To Still Be Reaching Into The Present--and Its Dark, Chilly Grasp May Extend To Cecil Himself--