The Twenty-Acre Plot

Download or read book The Twenty-Acre Plot written by Stephen F. Wilcox and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.