Garth Ryland mysteries

The morning after the local trash collector, deaf dwarf Amel Pilkin, is seen celebrating in the Corner Bar and Grill, he is found dead in his truck, the garbage barrels missing from the truck and a contusion on the back of his head. Nobody, including new sheriff Whitey Huffer, agrees with Ryland that Pilkin was murdered. But bull-headed Ryland, editor of the Oakalla Reporter, questions everyone who could have seen Pilkin on the day he died. Only Huffer,...

hen Monroe Edmonds, a four-hundred-pound antiques collector, is found dead in his elevator from an apparent heart attack, honorary sheriff's deputy Garth Ryland suspects there is more to the case when a valuable painting is discovered to be missing from Edmonds' home.