Two Simple Murders is a story about two killings occurring in a fictional municipality near New York City that have all of the appearances of failed robbery attempts but which are in reality a small part of a much greater conspiracy. The killings are followed by an attempt to assassinate the senior United States Senator of the State of New York. The local police are called upon to identify and apprehend the killer or killers and find themselves at the periphery of an international cartel of crime with unimaginable proportions.
