Gabe Treloar

Former Los Angeles policeman Gabe Treloar, on his way to Cleveland and a new job as private eye, visits his hometown of Monticello for a respite and befriends his landlady, a warm, middle-aged woman who is promptly murdered.

The Ghosts of Saigon delivers crime thriller suspense as dark secrets from the past are unearthed.

Since shamus Gabe Treloar can't say no to his boss, he drops his caseload in Knoxville and takes off after doting Randall 'Kit' Carson's daughter Sibyl, who seems to have traded grad school - despite her all-American credentials - for the dubious company of used-car con artist Nick Switzer. A look at some diaries and photographs suggest that Sibyl's been reading too much Nietzsche and posing for some very odd pictures, but they don't tell Gabe where she is. So Gabe hits the desperate highways for points west.