The Twenty-Acre Plot

In His Inaugural Adventure, Elias Hackshaw, The Wry And Irascible Editor Of A Small-Town Upstate New York Weekly Newspaper, Finds Himself Reluctantly Investigating The Death Of A Local Farmer. Hack’S Half-Hearted Snooping Soon Leads Him To Unscrupulous Land Developers, Then To An Eccentric Millionaire, Angry Indians, And, Finally, A Scheme (His Own) To Use Old Iroquois Artifacts To “Salt” An Archeological Dig – But Only As A Way To Lure The Killer Out Into The Open, He Assures Us. Any Personal Gain On Hackshaw’S Part Is, Ahem, Strictly Serendipitous.