Helms is making his fourth appearance on this page, with a pretty straight-forward private eye story.
Huck Spence retired after thirty-some years in the Texas Rangers, got bored, and applied for a PI license. Most of his work turned out to be serving subpoenas. Usually not a very challenging gig.
One day he goes to Humble, not far from Houston, to serve a guy named Ralph Oakley who skipped out on jury duty on the very day that "the district judge's diverticulitis was flaring up. Judge was in the mood to knock broomsticks up some asses."
Our hero tracks luckless Ralph down and then somebody gets murdered and Huck's Ranger instincts take over. He wants to know whodunit and whether he was partly responsible.
A neatly plotted little tale.
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