Fetch the devil : the Sierra Diablo murders and Nazi espionage in America
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 1938, Hazel Frome, the wife of a powerful executive at Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturer, set out on a cross-country motor trip with her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Nancy. Their car broke down in El Paso, Texas and a week later their near-nude bodies were found in the Chihuahuan Desert. There were no clues as to why they had apparently been abducted, tortured for days, and shot execution style. In the first narrative account of this still officially unsolved case based on long forgotten archives and recently declassified FBI files, Richmond paints a convincing portrait of a sheriff's dogged investigation into a baffling murder, the international spy ring that orchestrated it, and America on the brink of another world war.