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'Looks Can Kill' by Cliff McGoon
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RANCHO MIRAGE, CA (February 21, 2007) - Cliff
McGoon recently announced the release of his
third mystery, Looks Can Kill, published by Seecliff
Publishing. His characters and plot reflect his
years growing up in Des Plaines, Illinois during the
1950s.
The novel introduces Chet McGarey, a retired
police officer who is struggling to keep his P.I.
business from drowning in debt. McGarey feels old
and useless until he is faced with a worthy
challenge: unmasking a killer while on a 1950’s
reunion cruise.
According to McGoon, his third book grew from the
notion that while people change as they grow
older, some of their markers, such as: voice,
mannerisms, sense of humor, do not change as
much as their profile.
Carl Gorcheck, a killer with considerable
experience, murders and assumes the identity of a
wealthy and successful man--John Bettsford--who
is his look-alike.
Despite months of intense scrutiny and
investigation of his subject, Gorcheck misses
significant, and deadly, details of his victim's life-
such as, Bettsford had a secret lover, the wife of a
rich, powerful and ruthless man, Milton Armer. To
complicate matters, Bettsford was involved in
clandestine drug operations with Milton Armer,
and the two had been friends since their days at
Thacker Junior High School in Des Plaines Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago.
When Joanne Armer decides to put together a
junior high reunion cruise for her husband, things
begin to heat up for imposter Carl Gorcheck. He
doesn't know who Joanne Armer is because she
and Bettsford had broken off their nine-year affair
before Gorcheck began the study of his victim. Her
motive in organizing the cruise is to re-kindle her
fizzled romance with Bettsford, not knowing that
Carl Gorcheck has killed Bettsford and taken his
identity. Not only is Gorcheck trapped on a ship
with John Bettsford's lover of nine years, but also
with her billionaire husband, Milton, who is putting
together the final pieces of an all-or-nothing
gamble to corner the US wheat market. John
Bettsford was a pivotal part of the multi-billion-
dollar deal, and Milton thinks Gorcheck is
Bettsford.
Joanne Armer disappears at sea during the cruise.
Detective Chet McGarey is recruited by the ship's
captain to help solve Joanne Armer's
disappearance, along with the murder of a crew
member, but he has few resources and formidable
opponents. McGarey's chief reason for attending
the cruise is to revisit a 50-year-old school
romance with Bailey Turner.
McGarey is outclassed, outmaneuvered and
outgunned in this mystery-romance-thriller.
McGoon recently announced the release of his
third mystery, Looks Can Kill, published by Seecliff
Publishing. His characters and plot reflect his
years growing up in Des Plaines, Illinois during the
1950s.
The novel introduces Chet McGarey, a retired
police officer who is struggling to keep his P.I.
business from drowning in debt. McGarey feels old
and useless until he is faced with a worthy
challenge: unmasking a killer while on a 1950’s
reunion cruise.
According to McGoon, his third book grew from the
notion that while people change as they grow
older, some of their markers, such as: voice,
mannerisms, sense of humor, do not change as
much as their profile.
Carl Gorcheck, a killer with considerable
experience, murders and assumes the identity of a
wealthy and successful man--John Bettsford--who
is his look-alike.
Despite months of intense scrutiny and
investigation of his subject, Gorcheck misses
significant, and deadly, details of his victim's life-
such as, Bettsford had a secret lover, the wife of a
rich, powerful and ruthless man, Milton Armer. To
complicate matters, Bettsford was involved in
clandestine drug operations with Milton Armer,
and the two had been friends since their days at
Thacker Junior High School in Des Plaines Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago.
When Joanne Armer decides to put together a
junior high reunion cruise for her husband, things
begin to heat up for imposter Carl Gorcheck. He
doesn't know who Joanne Armer is because she
and Bettsford had broken off their nine-year affair
before Gorcheck began the study of his victim. Her
motive in organizing the cruise is to re-kindle her
fizzled romance with Bettsford, not knowing that
Carl Gorcheck has killed Bettsford and taken his
identity. Not only is Gorcheck trapped on a ship
with John Bettsford's lover of nine years, but also
with her billionaire husband, Milton, who is putting
together the final pieces of an all-or-nothing
gamble to corner the US wheat market. John
Bettsford was a pivotal part of the multi-billion-
dollar deal, and Milton thinks Gorcheck is
Bettsford.
Joanne Armer disappears at sea during the cruise.
Detective Chet McGarey is recruited by the ship's
captain to help solve Joanne Armer's
disappearance, along with the murder of a crew
member, but he has few resources and formidable
opponents. McGarey's chief reason for attending
the cruise is to revisit a 50-year-old school
romance with Bailey Turner.
McGarey is outclassed, outmaneuvered and
outgunned in this mystery-romance-thriller.