Hearse of a Different Color Book

This is the second, and our second, in the five-book Hitchcock Sewell undertaker and amateur sleuth series. Hitch spends little time at his funeral parlor in this one – rather, he really does roam throughout Baltimore chasing one clue after another, and one suspicious party after another, in search for who bumped off a waitress and dumped her body on his mortuary doorstep!

As with the first story, there is plenty of humor to go along with the mystery. However, “Color” features a somewhat more complex plot; and even manages to mount some ongoing suspense, as an overload of potential villains takes till near the final pages to sort themselves out. Hitch turns out to be quite a ladies man as well, spending much of the book prone, but not on his undertaker’s slab! By now, we get a pretty good sense of what these stories will be like, and will no doubt pick one up when we’re in the mood for a light-hearted mystery that is as amusing as it is puzzling!