"Conversation With A Dead Man" is an experimental novel, one that tests whether the narrative in an 800-page murder mystery can be contained almost exclusively in dialogue among the book's three principals. It begins with the murder of Country & Western star Sonny Weathers outside his Memphis home late one evening in 2012. His assailant, a complete stranger, appears to have been motivated by an on-line wanted poster that put a $25,000 price on Weathers' head. Weathers' widow, Barbara Whitehead, believes the poster was the work of more than one person and that clues to their identities can be...