Death of a Kootch Show Girl

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Death of a Kootch Show Girl is a mystery about a death at a small-town carnival in 1953 and its effects on a small group of carnies and local citizens. It is the last night of the carnival in a small Ohio town when a stripper turns up dead. The chief of police orders the carnies to stay in town while he investigates. Written in multiple first person narratives, the novel follows the story of each narrator: the local police chief; the small town reporter; a carnival stripper; a carnival clown; and the owner of the carnival. The week following the victim’s death changes all their lives.

It's Halloween night 1953, the last night of the carnival in rural Ohio, and a stripper turns up dead. Tom Davis, the chief of police, orders the carnies to stay in town while he investigates, but there are no leads to Mary's killer-no fingerprints on the murder weapon, no blood but Mary's at the scene, no foreign hairs or fibers-no clues of any kind. Brian Stockton, a reporter for the local paper, hopes this will be his break into the big time, so he begins to investigate as well. But, alas, the killer's identity eludes him, too. As tensions build, the carnies become paranoid, pointing fingers at each other. Could it be the owner, Bill Harris, the one who discovered the body? Or was it per-haps Gino Guglielmo, the man who runs the kootch show and has a nasty temper? Was it the eccentric clown, Otto Radowski, a man with dark secrets in his past and who just happens to have Mary's cat? And how did the killer manage to commit such a violent act without leaving a single speck of evidence? Mary certainly wasn't killed by a ghost…or was she?

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