The story Bjorn Bjornson tells Carl Wilcox is a sordid tale of the rape and murder of his niece in a church basement. The crime is a year old, but the hundred dollars Carl is offered to come up with answers is brand new, and the Great Depression still has its hold on the country.Gwendolen Westcott was brilliant, beautiful, and given to crushes on older men, people like her school teachers and the very attractive Chris Kilbride, a man many feel may have taught Gwendolen more than Bible lessons. But no one thinks the teacher's pet was the kind to carelessly invite trouble to meet her in the deserted basement.With no real enemies - and no real friends - Carl's search has to begin by lifting rocks to see what crawls out; what he finds is more than even the cynical Wilcox, who's seen it all and done most of it, could ever have expected. Read Less