In the tiny lakeside settlement of Memaloose, Nevada, there is trouble afoot. Paying a social call on the mayor, the sheriff is as startled as the rest of the gathering when a shot rings out. He is even more startled when he is asked to cover up the affair by helping to get rid of the body a body which has unaccountably gone missing. When the hunt for the missing body uncovers instead the body of an entirely different victim, the sheriff realises that he will need all his wits not to mention a side helping of diplomacy and tact if he is to bring the culprit to justice.
Originally published in 1936, this is a vintage American murder mystery from the golden age of detection.