Death in the Crease

by Richard Curtis

Dave Bolt is a hardened insider, familiar with the dirty underside of American professional sports. He witnesses the last-minute deals, the bribes and the blackmail that keep the high-powered industry spinning while huge amounts of money change hands under the table. The latest situation Dave Bolt has to deal with is an explosive ice hockey scandal that threatens to expose the sport’s biggest game as a sham…Former Black Hawk goalie Guy LeClede writes an expose of the corruption in ice hockey which “would blow hockey off the ice” if published. But before the book is seen by anyone else, LeClede suddenly drives his car off a cliff and the manuscript disappears. The ice hockey VIP’s have given the assignment to Dave Bolt: to investigate the possibility of murder and unravel the intricacies of one of the priciest gambling deals of the decade.