Frank Carlson Library

The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...

"Explores the stories of six famous missing-person cases."--

A rock star is forced by two men to swim in a pool until, exhausted, she drowns. Lieutenant Colombo of the Los Angeles police department goes after the killers, a probe that takes him to Italy.