There is a treasure high in the Colorado Rockies waiting for someone to find it. Jake Martin couldn’t care less. Since the death of his wife, all Jake wants is to be left alone in his mountain cabin where he and his dog, Fred, can get on with life. But when it becomes known that the location of the treasure is encrypted in a message left by a 19th-century miner, people begin to die, and Jake’s good friend and neighbor becomes the number one suspect. The old miner used a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a key to his coded message, and the real murderer wants that edition so bad, he’s willing to kill for it. Can the amateur sleuths decode the message and stop the murderer, or have Jake and Fred finally met their match?
Jake and Fred and Drake’s Enigma The first and second To Die For mysteries featuring Jake and Fred were fresh, filled with surprises and humor, and the third is no exception. Here we have another fine adventure with Jake, an irregularly employed computer programmer and amateur sleuth, and Fred, Jake’s golden retriever and partner in crime-solving. Jake does most of the heavy lifting, with Fred always close by (on just about every page). Their efforts are aided, abetted, and sometimes complicated by a sixty-nine year old…
Enjoyable murder mystery I just finished reading A Treasure To Die For by Richard Houston. This was the third installment of the series and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It really kept me guessing. There were more suspects in this story. No sooner had I thought I solved the murder when that suspect would be proved innocent and another one would crop up. I never figured it out. I think Fred figures it out early on, but he isn’t talking. This storyline involved Mark Twain and a lost hidden treasure of gold. Taking place with…
Interesting,fast paced, and fun to read! I loved Fred and the obvious devotion his owner had for him. I gave it four stars because I had to re-read portions on order to keep all the characters straight.