Author:
Hayes, Frank, 1940- author.
Note:Virgil Dalton's been the sheriff of Hayward for over a dozen years, and has lived there all his life. It's a sleepy Southwestern town where everybody pretty much knows everybody. Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull, his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and will come back eventually. Until the sheriff discovers Buddy floating in one of his stock tanks.
