Dead for the Last Time

Larry Sterne, a free-spirited young fellow, comes back to his home town after his first year of college. He learns that an old pedophile has been found dead in an abandoned milk factory and some of his friends are suspected. Before long, one of the friends turns up dead as well. Larry looks into things to satisfy his own curiosity, but his doing so puts him in danger as well. Set in the summer of 1967, this is a nice period piece as well as a genial murder mystery with a serious undertone. Like other works by John D. Nesbitt, it has realistic depictions of life in the small towns, fruit fields, and working-class housing of rural California in the 1960's.