The Cremation Murders

Although they never meet face-to-face, chance events from their childhood propel Frank Noguchi and Bill Emmet toward each other, like two locomotives headed for a crash. The Cremation Murders introduces Captain Frank Noguchi, of the San Francisco Police, in the act of destroying a gang of bank robbers. Afterwards, Noguchi ends more than thirty years on the force and begins searching for the person who murdered his father, thirty-seven years before. Part Two tells about the Noguchi Family, Japanese immigrants who settled in San Francisco near the turn of the Twentieth Century. Part Three describes the Emmet Family, Irish immigrants who settled in Boston after the potato famine. Bill Emmet, a Harvard graduate and Texas businessman, perfects a murder-for-hire business by cremating his victims. Part Four, in which the hunter becomes the hunted, traces the growing tension between Frank Noguchi and Bill Emmet. An inferno on the streets of the "City by the Bay" ends the hunt for both men.