The Gracie Allen Murder Case Insomniac Press As threats bear down on

As threats bear down on the Republic from all sides

he was an architect at Docker advising some of their most strategic customers

The backstabbing and trickery turns potentially deadly - seriously injuring one of the contenders

Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century

homespun philosopher -- Fred is a man of many parts

The Gracie Allen Murder Case Insomniac Press As threats bear down onGracie Allen breaks the Philo Phormula in a number of ways. First is its title: this is the only book in the series to modify "Murder Case" with more than one word, much less with the name of a character. And then there's that character: Gracie Allen was a very real, much loved comedienne in the 1930s, famous for her double act with George Burns, and in fact the plot revolves around her. Gracie's centrality is no accident: Van Dine wrote the story as