What was the clue of the lipstick on the dead man’s mouth that started Jerry Burke on the tortuous murder trail through El Paso and Juarez? The death maze draws together an American oil tycoon; a high official of the State Department; and two of the most unusual women ever involved in deliberate, cold blooded, murder. JERRY BURKE, adventurer and former Texas Ranger, who combines the imaginative brilliance of the Irishman with the laconic self-assurance of the Texan, throws the full resources of his remarkable deductive intellect into the solution of a mystery more complex and more tantalizing than his first. JERRY BURKE, Asa Baker’s creation, is a discovery of high importance in detective literature. After the first Jerry Burke mystery, reviewers clamored for another, which Asa Baker presents in The Kissed Corpse a story crammed with suspense, excitement and mystery