Mr Mercedes Ellory Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler

each chapter takes a different novel and investigates the poison (or poisons) the murderer used

The title references the spiritual of the same name (popularised by Paul Robeson in 1959)

or when he's leading others into danger

Mr Mercedes Ellory Otto PenzlerBill Hodges, a retired homicide detective is haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular the pre dawn slaughter of eight people, among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair, by a lone driver who ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. When he receives a letter from a man claiming to be the perpetrator and threatening to strike again, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell bent on