The Lady of the Lantern - J. a. Castagno

Panama Canal Zone Police Detective Dan Casey, a product of Irish immigrant parents, must solve a series of murders. A shooting, stabbing or beating would have been a piece of cake for a rookie. A gruesome crime committed by a four hundred year old woman, feared by the locals, is not a case he welcomes. Claw marks on the throat of the first victim leads everyone to believe it was a large jungle cat. Casey and his friend Lou know better. Large black jaguars don't take seven hundred mile trips north..