A Fragment Too Far

  John Ludka, Journalism Professor, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico.

  DeWitt Carter Reddick, PhD, Journalism Professor, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

  Ernest A. Sharpe, PhD, Journalism Professor, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

  Joe B. Frantz, PhD, History Professor, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

  Gordon K. Greaves, Editor, Portales News-Tribune, Portales, New Mexico.

  T. Jay Harris, Editor, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, Texas.

  Howard (Bud) DeWald, Editor, Arizona Republic Sunday Magazine, Phoenix, Arizona.

  Etta Jones Lynch, Biographer and Writing Skills Developer, Lubbock and Houston, Texas.

  The contents of this work are the sole responsibility of the author. Any inaccuracies or other shortcomings are his alone.

  About the Author

  Dudley Lynch was born in Tennessee but raised in an oft-moving preacher’s family, mostly on the southern Great Plains. He has written 16 non-fiction books, including a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a study of Texas tornadoes. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

  Copyright

  Copyright © Dudley Lynch, 2019

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  Cover design: Michel Vrana

  Author photo: © Larry Lourcey

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Title: A fragment too far : a Sheriff Luke McWhorter mystery / Dudley Lynch.

  Names: Lynch, Dudley, author.

  Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190110678 Canadiana (ebook) 20190110686

  ISBN 9781770414990 (softcover)

  ISBN 9781773053837 (PDF)

  ISBN 9781773053820 (EPUB)

  Classification: LCC PS3612.Y52 F73 2019 DDC 813/.6—dc23