Canvas Coffin - by William Campbell Gault (Paperback)

About the Book

Luke Pilgrim wakes up the morning after taking some serious punches in his title fight the night before and can't remember if he killed a girl he was seen with after the victory party. Pilgrim realizes that to clear himself as a suspect he must piece the events together and find out what occurred that night. But, justice is breathing down his neck and closing in, so he must continue to slug out of his lost memory any vague thought that could prove beneficial to solve the mystery.

Book Synopsis

The fighter had a dream. . . .
Some men were sewing a body into canvas. It was on the deck of a ship. There was a big seam up the middle of the canvas, and now only the face was still uncovered . . .

''You want to take a last look, champ?'' one of the men asked. ''We're about ready to dump him.''

The fighter bent to see in the moonlight. The face in the canvas was his own . . .

The fighter was Luke Pilgrim, middleweight champion of the world. Luke could handle any man in the ring. He also could handle the hoods who were trying to muscle in on his next fight . . . But there was one thing he couldn't handle - and that was murder . . .

About the Author

William Campbell Gault (1910-1995) was a sports fiction author and Edgar Award-winning crime fiction author. Some of his notable works include Don't Cry for Me and the Shamus Award-winning title, The Cana Diversion from the Brock Callahan series.