January 17th, 2015 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Author Kathleen Kaska joins us with her mystery novel “Murder at the Driskill”, the fourth and newest addition to her Syndey Lockhart series featuring famous Texas hotels (including the locally popular “Murder at the Galvez”, set in Galveston.)

Murder at the Driskill
by Kathleen Kaska

It is 1953 in Austin where Sydney and her detective boyfriend Ralph Dixon have just opened their own private investigation agency. They quickly land a high profile case to investigate one Leland Tatum, a businessman about to launch a campaign for Texas governor.

The focus of the case changes drastically when Tatum is shot to death in his room at the Driskill Hotel where he was about to announce his campaign. The Texas gumshoes suddenly find themselves in the middle of the murder investigation along with an unwanted amateur sleuth, the daughter of one of the suspects who is out to clear her father’s name.

The book signing will be held at the store, 317 23rd street in Downtown Galveston.

Kathleen Kaska writes the award-winning Sydney Lockhart mysteries set in the 1950s. Her first two books Murder at the Arlington and Murder at the Luther, were selected as bonus-books for the Pulpwood Queens Book Group, the largest book group in the country. The third book in the series, Murder at the Galvez, is set at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston. Kaska also writes the Classic Triviography Mystery Series, which includes The Agatha Christie Triviography and Quiz Book, The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz Book, and The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book. The Alfred Hitchcock and the Sherlock Holmes trivia books are finalists for the 2013 EPIC award in nonfiction. Her nonfiction book, The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story (University Press of Florida), was published in 2012.