When retired maintenance man Frank Sinatra finds Darell Willows's body in the swimming pool of the Last Gasp Motel in Omnipodge, California, Frank must deal with the responding police officer making wisecracks about his name while trying to figure out what happened.

Detective Duke Lambert arrives and quizzes Frank. Frank agrees to help the detective, whom he has worked with before. Suspects include the residents of the Last Gasp and the son and daughter-in-law of the unpopular victim.

The aging residents are a quirky lot including chain-smoking manager Hedda Robinson; kleptomaniac Carolyn Bryant; "Accident" Al Utley, who causes traffic accidents and then collects money from the other drivers; dog-poop vigilante Pat Pope known as "Mr. Poop"; good Samaritan Mira Neighbors; potassium-obsessed, banana-chomping Banny Zamora; flower petal-scattering Gladys Terry; womanizer Caruthers Quinter; authority-avoiding Varenka; and conspiracy-theory nut Ethel Ogden.

Each of the suspects argued recently with the deceased-and all of them have reasons to want him dead. The eccentric tenants must work together to solve the case before the city demolishes the place they call home and replaces it with a shopping mall-the race is on to find the killer and save the Last Gasp Motel!

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	256
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Encircle Publications, LLC
Fecha de Publicación	2023-07-12
Dimensiones	8.5" x 5.5" x 0.58" pulgadas
Serie	Omnipodge Trilogy
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

Befeler, Mike

Mike Befeler is the author of the Omnipodge Trilogy which includes Old Detectives Home (April 2022), Last Gasp Motel (July 2023), and coming in 2024, A Mystery Yarn. He has also written six novels in the Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery series-Retirement Homes Are Murder, Living with Your Kids Is Murder, Senior Moments Are Murder, Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder, Care Homes Are Murder, Nursing Homes Are Murder-two of which were finalists for The Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery. He has nine other published mystery novels: Unstuff Your Stuff, Death of a Scam Artist, The V V Agency, The Back Wing, The Front Wing, Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse, Murder on the Switzerland Trail, Court Trouble, and Paradise Court; an international thriller, The Tesla Legacy; a non-fiction book, The Best Chicken Thief in All of Europe; and a novella, Coronavirus Daze. Mike is past-president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. He grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now lives in Lakewood, California, with his wife, Wendy.