Norman Shabel Chateau Publishing House, Inc. www.chpinc.com 357 pp., $25 I find the author guilty of withholding evidence, but I'm hesitant to declare a mistrial. Whether the cause was oversight, error, or deliberate suppression, the reader isn't alerted to a crucial piece of information until page 300--and its importance becomes clear on page 335, a mere 22 pages from the end of the story. The evidence, which scheming prosecutor Roger Leary uses to crucify the state medical examiner on the stand, is this: In the opening pages, Eleanore Rubin drives home safely, then carries on a lucid conve...
