The Deadly Climate by Ursula Curtiss

"One of the season's best pure thrillers--a throat- clutcher in the absolute, tightly and economically written and plotted (it all hapens in about twelve hours), rich in well-observed people, dexterous suspense tricks, and some first-rate detection by a small-town newspaper man. Choose your evening for this one; you won't get anything else done till you've finished it."

Please Note: I am a smoker.