Bill Pronzini"s nameless detective is face with three locked-room mysteries in this tight novel. Not only that, but the detective is having problems with Kerry, the woman whom he wants to marry and who is not sure she wants to marry him. "Scattershot" is almost a collection of interwoven short stories as the nameless detective seeks to explain how a man apparently disappears from a car under observation, how a woman is killed in a locked cabin but not by the only other person in the cabin, and how a jewel thief pulls off a theft from an empty room under constant observation.