A Requisition for Murder
A 1950s Military Police Procedural

About this book:

In the bitter Maryland winter of 1953, the Army's most valuable inventory isn't weapons—it's the paperwork that accounts for them. When civilian auditor Arthur Finch arrives at Fort Meade to investigate a four-percent variance in quartermaster stores, he expects ledger errors and clerical sloppiness. Instead, he finds a supply chain bled dry by someone who knows exactly which forms to forge, which seals to counterfeit, and which boxcars to mark "empty" before they roll out the back gate.

Finch's only ally is Master Sergeant Kovacs, a battle-hardened MP with a broken nose, a Chicago accent, and zero patience for necktie-wearing bureaucrats. Together they navigate a world of carbon-copy triplicate, Cosmolene-soaked warehouses, and night-shift laborers who move crates by the light of a single bare bulb. The thief isn't a soldier—it's the system itself, corrupted from the loading dock to the depot commander's office.

*A Requisition for Murder* is a meticulous, atmospheric police procedural where the murder weapon is a fountain pen and the body count is measured in missing generators, copper wire, and the careers of men who asked the wrong questions. For readers who love their mysteries built on procedure, period detail, and the quiet tension of two professionals circling a truth the brass would kill to bury.