Eric Odendahl, PhD ’66, is the author of “The Peeping Tom Murders of Cobre,” published on Kindle. The description reads: “As inquisitive as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Skinny Maxwell and his friend, Bennie Jack Hawkins, peep at a naked woman in a dilapidated trailer just as her husband arrives and shoots her, only to discover there are witnesses. It is 1947 in a copper mining town of southwestern New Mexico, where residents gossip over a visit by British royalty and take sides over Jackie Robinson’s challenge of racial inequality in baseball. Skinny must run for his life, hiding in a rattlesnake-infested cave the teens believe was Apache chief Geronimo’s. State Patrolman Elmer Thornton pursues the stalking killer, hoping Skinny won’t become the next victim.”

Updated: September 10, 2013