Go home, stranger by Charles Williams

This single source provides lengthy excerpts from Charles Williams' 1954 novel, Go Home, Stranger, chronicling the urgent investigation by a man named Reno into the murder of his friend, McHugh, a lawyer who was searching for a missing man named Rupert Conway in Waynesport. Reno's investigation quickly leads him to believe that Conway is actually Robert Counsel, a known black marketeer and explosives expert who recently returned from Italy and is linked to a past boat explosion. The excerpts follow Reno as he tries to prove that Counsel is the real killer, saving his sister Vickie from a murder charge, all while simultaneously encountering and working with Patricia Lasater, a woman who is later revealed to be Patricia Devers, the sister of one of Counsel's victims. The narrative culminates in a confrontation with Hutch Griffin, who confesses to killing McHugh and Counsel over a shipment of smuggled heroin hidden in lead containers.