Crime and Punishment

About the Book

File case 1, Lena Goodenough.

Lena Goodenough, teacher in Lakeview High  was found dead by her landlady. Was she burned or poisoned ?  Were any other murders committed to cover up for hers?

File case Two,  Mr. Bear and his fate.

Mr. Bear, owner of the Home Sports Equipment was a well known  person in this town

Why would anyone suspect that he was murdered?  Was it the daughter or the butler who killed him?

File case Three, Murder of Mrs. Atos

Mrs. Atos, a multimillionaire of the fair city. of Oakland was brutally murdered. Her faithful dog is also dead. Who done it.?

File case Four The Bowen’s

Melissa Bowen, well-known painter of desert pictures is found murdered in her bedroom.

Was her diamond jewelry the motive?

File case Three, Murder of Mrs. Atos

Mrs. Atos, a multimillionaire of this fair city was brutally mutilated. Her faithful dog is also dead. Who done it?

File case Five. The druggie

Is the blond, dark eyed child really a criminal?  Find out, you’ll be the judge.

File case 6 Jane Doe

Police found her by the park near the lake. Puzzle this one out. Her sandals are full of salty sand, How come?

File case 7. The Liquor Store Robbery..

The only evidence at the site is a knife, true, not an ordinary one What would you do to find out, who killed the salesman?

File case  8. The Pensioner

Who would do anything bad to a kindly old man? Figure it out.

File case9. Becher becomes a new man.

Becher is one of the detectives. He does not quite become a new man, in fact , he likes his job better than the new role assigned to him, that of an independently rich man.

About the Author

Eva Caro was born in Florence, Italy, grew up in Austria, near Salzburg.

She studied a year of Law in the University of Vienna, met Michael Renteria Caro

and married him.  Realizing that the Austrian Law degree would not be valid in

the U.S.A, she switched to English, German and History as her majors. In the

U.S.A. the couple had .five children. At 40 years of age , Eva studied at the California University at Berkeley and graduated  from Library School with  a Master of Librarianship after completing the undergraduate B.A in Spanish and German.

Then she worked as a librarian in Oakland and San Francisco, after  a promotion to Senior Librarian  in Sacramento at the Caltrans Laboratory . Now retired ,she became a

fiction writer