Adele Gossling is adjusting well to small-town life and sticking with the business of fountain pens and letter paper while staying out of crime investigation. But then Millie Gibb, the new teacher at the local girls’ school, is found dead, and everybody in town assumes she committed suicide.
Can Adele and her clairvoyant friend Nin prove that Millie’s death was foul play based on a cigar stub, a letter fragment, and a cigarette lighter before the case is closed for good?
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