Cable Car Mystery

Detectives Sam and Amelia Slater are contemplating fleeing the city for

their Stinson Beach house. However, when Sam decides to take a cable

car ride to run some errands on the lazy summer day, he's suddenly thrust

into the spotlight when he rescues a woman who fell onto the busy street.

Sam pulls the mysterious red haired woman out of the path of an oncoming

cable car in the nick of time. The entire incident is captured by a newspaper

photographer who splashes Sam's heroics all over the front page. Sam is

troubled not only by his new status as a city hero, but by the rescued

woman's plea for help. She whispers to Sam that she didn't fall from the

cable car but was pushed. She is frightened and disappears into the crowd

before Sam can get more details. A San Francisco newspaper launches a

campaign to find the mystery woman and Sam hopes to cross paths with

her again.

Meanwhile, Amelia is troubled by the sudden disappearance of her

elderly neighbor. Two thuggish younger men who now occupy the house

next door say he took a sudden trip. One night when she's alone Amelia

grabs a flashlight and finds some disturbing clues in her neighbor's garage.

What really happened to her neighbor? Amelia is determined to find out.

Award winning author Greg Messel spins a new tale of intrigue in

Cable Car Mystery, the sixth book in the Sam Slater Mystery series set in at

the 1950s in San Francisco.