A Body for a Buddy

New York: Crime Club, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Ken Morton, Cordially." Jacket edges rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. 189 pp. After twenty years Matt Erridge has gone back to his college reunion. There were the old friendships, and with his old buddies he picks up as though the two decades were but a moment gone. There was also an old enmity. Picking up on that took longer, but the old animosity revived. But before he can grow sentimental about memories of sowing wild oats, death intervenes, sudden and ugly. Since all the evidence says murder, carefully planned and maliciously calculated toward throwing suspicion Matt's way, he cannot consider himself uninvolved. Violence follows on murder and then murder strikes again. Has someone declared open season on the widows of friends and classmates' One thing becomes inescapably evident: the killer is one of the old crowd, a member of the illustrious class. So Erridge has to know. Who had done him this unwelcome service' Who had provided A BODY FOR A BUDDY