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Case Pending
(1960)(The first book in the Lieutenant Luis Mendoza series)
A novel by Dell Shannon (Elizabeth Linington)
The girl's battered body was found in an empty lot in a Southern California city. Though Detective-Sergeant Hackett disliked his superior on the case, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, he had to respect the way Mendoza started out to find who had killed the girl. There were almost no clues, it seemed, even after the police had identified the victim—Elena Ramirez, whose hair was peroxided and who had been killed on her lonely way home from a roller-skating rink. Then later there was the doll—a large, expensive doll that seemed to have vanished. And, unknown to Mendoza, there was young Martin Lindstrom, big for his age, a good student, who found a spot of blood on the sleeve of his jacket and thought to himself miserably, not again, not again. But when he brought his worries to his strict, hard-working mother, she told him to be quiet, to forget it, to get on with his homework. Dell Shannon, whose first mystery this is, has written an engrossing, moving story of a most believable and horrible crime, and the people in the novel are people such as one might find in any Southern California town, people whose skins are varied in color and whose backgrounds are everyday poor and middle-class, respectable and less so. And she has created in Luis Mendoza a working policeman of real distinction.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for Elizabeth Linington's Case Pending
Hardback Editions
May 1990 : UK Hardback
November 1976 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
July 2020 : USA Paperback
December 2015 : UK Paperback
Title: Case Pending
Author(s): Dell Shannon
ISBN: 1-4719-1332-5 / 978-1-4719-1332-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: The Murder Room
Availability: Amazon UK
December 1990 : UK Paperback
May 1990 : USA Paperback
August 1989 : UK Paperback
October 1984 : USA Paperback
June 1982 : UK Paperback
Kindle Editions
August 2020 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition