The Calm Water
(Tami Hoag)
When Elizabeth Stuart , pretty journalist novelist, bought the review of the locality of Still Creek city where she had recently settled she did not suspect misfortunes that she went meeting by this acquisition. Unfortunately for her the first news which she published in the periodical was concerning the murder of a rich person head of undertaking of the area, of which she found herself the body.
For the police officer the crime was perpetrated by marginal whom wandered in the city a certain time ago, the mobile would be the refusal of the victim to give him an employment. But for Elizabeth the things are not so simple, the way in which Jarvis was assassinated supposes a crime of hatred, by somebody who would have a so large resentment against the man. What was the reason? The truth is that Jarvis was not a person loved in the city and that many people hate him for his richness and his stinginess. With the wire of Elizabeth time realizes that she becomes undesirable as foreign, but especially to have been discover of the victim4s corpse. Excepting the sheriff Aaron Hauer who tied a friendship with her for having agreed to repqre her house in exchange of a mill, and which treated her suitably, the other inhabitants of the city wanted to expel her.
They have even charged somebody to destroy the installations of her periodical and to attack her in her own house. It is at this moment that she starts to suspect that somebody thought that she had discovered something of important like the black book disappeared from the office of the victim. The entire city knew this book where Jarvis noted the names of the people to which he borrowed money, as well as other information which could bring benefit to him. Is it possible that the name of assassin is in this book?
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