KANE AND AVERILL,
by Bev VincentNo one ever really disappeared, Benjamin Kane mused as he battled midday traffic on San Felipe. Someone undoubtedly knew where Jimmy Hoffa was buried, and Amelia Earhart’s fate would eventually be determined. Even Kane’s mother, who abandoned the family when he was five, might turn up some day.
Kane was thinking about missing people because of a call from Marsha Averill, whose husband had vanished a week earlier. One of Scot Averill’s spy thrillers had been turned into a blockbuster movie, so the story made national headlines. Because the police had gotten nowhere thus far, his wife wanted to hire Kane and his team to conduct a parallel investigation.
He pulled up in front of the Averills’ mansion, which was adjacent to but not quite in Houston’s fashion
