Murder in the Walls

by Richard Stern

Publisher:

Garrett County Press

, 2012

Overview

Murder in the Walls is the story of a murdered prostitute and a cop determined to find the killer. Flora Hobbs owned one of New Mexico’s oldest Spanish-style houses, and shared it with a bevy of beautiful working girls. When one of them turned up dead -- in a locked room -- Detective Johnny Ortiz followed a scent that went straight beneath Santo Cristo’s respectable facade into a world of hustlers, profiteers -- and at least one killer. Welcome to the first Johnny Ortiz mystery, which was set in motion by Richard Martin Stern (The Tower) in 1971. The New York Times Book Review said, "The author knows the country and his people. There is a feeling of desert and mesa, open air, spaciousness ... The prose is lean, the characters convincing, the plotting impeccable."

Product Details

• Title: Murder in the Walls
• Author: Richard Stern
• Publisher: Garrett County Press
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 237
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781939430014, 1939430011
• Resource ID: LLS:9781939430014
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-02T06:58:03Z

About Richard Stern

Dr. Richard Stern teaches courses on homiletics and other religious communication topics, including homiletics for hearers, preaching as listening, and parish communication. He has produced a six-part videotape series, Preaching for Today…and Tomorrow, and, among other articles and papers, has co-authored Savior on the Silver Screen with two other Saint Meinrad faculty members. He is a past-president of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics and has been a board member of the Academy of Homiletics and the Catholic Coalition on Preaching.