Anne Wingate writing as Marha G. Webb: Darling Corey's Dead (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
"Well-plotted, suspenseful, thoroughly satisfying mystery" -- Drood Review
ANNE WINGATE writing as Martha G. Webb
DARLING COREY'S DEAD
On the first day of his assignment to a small Texas town, Postal Inspector Allen Conyers and his temporary partner, police detective Cheryl Burroughs, are involved in a shootout with a fugitive who has been hiding under the protection of the town's most successful prostitute, the beautiful black woman known to everyone as Darling Corey. When Cheryl kills the fugitive, Darling Corey disappears.

MARTHA G. WEBB is the pseudonym for Anne Wingate. She has written twenty books, including Yakuza, Go Home! and Exception to Murder. Darling Corey's Dead was her first novel.

"She rounds out her characters nicely and with much sympathy." -- Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Anne Wingate writing as Marha G. Webb: Darling Corey's Dead. A Mystery Scene Book. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786701099 (June, 1994), 216 p., $3.95.

Marha G. Webb: Darling Corey's Dead (UK 1986)

From the Publisher:
Postal Inspector Allen Conyers and his temporary partner, police detective Cheryl Burroughs, are assigned to a small Texas town to investigate a series of post office robberies. At once they are involved in a shoot out with a fugitive who had been hiding with Darling Corey, the town s most successful prostitue. Darling Corey then disappears. Cheryl and Allen only want to find her because they think she may lead them to me mysterous figure, known ony as 'the Man', behind the robberies, but even with Cheryl's local knowledge it proves a difficult task. Dangerous too. There are several horrible deaths and Conrey's badly wounded. But against the background of rising tension, Cheryl aid Conyers grow to unsterstard each other, aid find the love that has been missing from their lives.

Marha G. Webb: Darling Corey's Dead. Connoisseur crime No. 27. London: Robert Hale, 1986, ISBN: 0709024118, 166 p., £6.95.