Johnny Fedora #13: “Shockwave”
by Desmond Cory. Johnny is in Spain in response to a call from a girl he knows.
An actress friend is reported to have committed suicide, but she believes the
girl was murdered. Johnny doesn’t like being a detective, but he promises to
look into the case. Before he gets far into the investigation another odd death
occurs with a witness he just talked to, and now he suspects murder also.
Contacting the dead actress’s sister, he’s led to a rich man with many contacts
who is suspected of the murder of the actress. But the case goes deeper than
what is on the surface. There’s another plot much bigger than a few murders,
and it involves the destruction of Madrid by an H-Bomb. This was really a good
story after it gets started, and Johnny is more the professional spy than I’ve
seen him in previous stories where he just stands around looking mean. This
time he proves how mean he can be. Very good, and highly entertaining.
