Indetectable

Wanda Wary, a black orphan, is a senior in a newly-integrated rural Kansas high school in 1955. She is a student on weekday mornings. A work/study program has her working as a nurse's aid in an rest home during the afternoons. Jack Jameson, a quadriplegic patient, joins her in a firm which is merely a yellow-page listing for INDETECTABLE PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS with a P.O. Box and Jack's telephone number. To their surprise, their first case is a violent rape of a woman who doesn't want law enforcement involved.

Wanda Wary, a black orphan, is a senior at Knute County Consolidated High School, class of 1955, in predominately white Western Kansas. Her work/study program has her in school every morning and working as a nurse's aide at a rest home in the afternoons. One of the patients, Jack Jameson, is a quadriplegic 22-year-old who served as a U.S. Marine in Korea, where he was shot in the neck severing his spine. Wanda has set up a phone he can manage. It is listed to Indetectable Inquires, with a P.O. Box address, under "Private Detectives" in the yellow pages. A woman named Laura calls because she has been raped. She did not call the Sheriff's Office because she does not want her husband or children to find out. With high anxiety, the partners at Indetectable take their first case. Further details of this gripping crime drama would spoil the surprises for the reader.

Harry Gossett was born and raised in the Midwest. He served in the United States Marine Corps and then launched a half-century career as an investigator, first as an FBI agent and then as a private detective. His partner in the private investigations business was a black woman. Now retired, he writes books.