Descent Into Madness

Before he does anything else, amateur sleuth and college professor Thomas Martindale must get out of jail and clear his name. In the process, he has to find the real killer of a close friend and stop the fiendish plans of her former husband to use illegal migrants in virus research. His search leads him to an abandoned and spooky sanitarium in Oregon's Coast Range where he encounters a murderous Mexican drug gang and a missing moose amid the bat, rats, cobwebs, and horrors of past treatment schemes to treat the mentally ill and people with debilitating illnesses.