Stymie

About the Book

The St. George mysteries are tales of contemporary murder presented with a touch of class. Murder is frightening enough by itself, so if you seek an adrenaline rush from gripping terror, cruel sadism, and graphic descriptions of grisly human torture and mutilation, you’ve come to the wrong place. You also will not find the distracting sidebars and tabloid fillers that often contaminate ‘modern’ mystery novels.

In Chief Inspector Byram St. George, you will encounter “a sleuth unlike anyone you’ve ever met” and stories that readers find difficult if not impossible to put down.

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A wealthy Chicago socialite is murdered in her home, bludgeoned to death with the golf trophy she had won only the day before. Her husband – wife beater and distant kin to the Royal Family – is the only suspect. Whitehall dispatches Chief Inspector Byram St. George to monitor the investigation, an assignment that quickly finds him kidnapped at gunpoint by the Chicago Mafia. The godfather, Anthony “Tony Bones” Portello, wants St. George to solve the same murder because he plans to avenge her death.

St. George refuses the outrageous demand, but when a gun barrel is pressed to his head, he reconsiders and agrees although he has absolutely no idea how he can save his own life, prevent a second murder, and escape police arrest and certain disgrace.

From the outset, he encounters roadblock after roadblock, one stymie after another, beginning with the female law-and-order Cook County State’s Attorney who adamantly refuses to let him see the file or the crime scene. Worse yet, he suspects Portello has a spy in the State’s Attorney’s office monitoring his every move. In fact, he believes that protecting that spy is the real reason for his kidnapping.

So whom can he trust? Who is NOT on Portello’s payroll?

Like Ulysses confronting Scylla and Charybdis, St. George perseveres, facing death or disgrace at every step....only to encounter betrayal once his mission is accomplished...

Stymie. Another of the St. George mysteries by Peter Jamesson.

About the Author

Praise for Unplayable Lie — "Nowhere else in the annals of golfing mystery, not even in the hands of the great Agatha Christie, is an ingeniously woven tale interspersed in a meaningful way with golfing vistas...resulting in a tale of mystery that is good to the last chapter." http://buff-golf.crosswinds.net “There is another fine line which the author pulls off admirably: incorporating scientific detail and plausibly presenting it." http://www.golfbookreviews.com "I...hit the jackpot...Jamesson manages to mix all four elements [golf, detective story, travelogue, and describing technical details in laymen's terms] into a pleasantly beguiling introduction to his new hero's adventures." http://www.holebyhole.com