The Murder of Alan Canty
I am currently reading the book Masquerade by Lowell Cauffiel. If you have not read any of his books you should check him out. I am not sure how many books he has written but this is his second that I have read and they are very good. What I did not know or realized after reading my first book of his, House of Secrets , was that he was previously a newspaper journalist. That in and of itself is not odd, nor is it unusual for them to write books about cases they covered in their job as a journalist. This is just such a case for Cauffiel. He was a journalist for a local newspaper in Detroit in 1985 when psychologist, Alan Canty was murdered and the people responsible were put on trial. This story is the one that authors and screenwriters dream about. It had everything, a rich, respected victim who was hiding a dark secret; then there was the prostitute and her pimp who not only used him, ultimately murdered him. And, let us not forget the wife who was as shocked as any...