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Another early review for Jack Vance's Desperate Days. Here, in a cut from the review, Publishers Weekly looks closely at The Fox Valley Murders, one of the three novels contained in the omnibus:

…shows Vance to be a highly skilled practitioner of the traditional mystery. The first of the three, The Fox Valley Murders (1966), introduces Sheriff Joe Bain of California’s fictional San Rodrigo County. As acting sheriff following his boss’s unexpected demise, Bain looks into a baffling series of deaths apparently connected with the return of bad seed Ausley Wyett, who’s just served 16 years for the rape-murder of an eighth-grader. People who testified against Wyett have begun getting threatening letters. Once a key clue is revealed at the end, readers will be gratified to go back and see how Vance concealed it in plain sight…