Hultman: Ready for Death

“READY OR NOT, YOU SHALL BE CAUGHT.” Thus read the anonymous notes received by some of Bly’s Landing’s leading citizens. Then murder struck the Mansion House, mausoleum-like residence of the austere Amberlees. Hardly had Lawson and Judith Amberlee been killed before their niece Lydia was found drowned, and after that the Grim Reaper started working overtime. With only such meager clues as a few bittersweet blossoms and the warning notes, the young town marshal, Joe Ralston, abetted by Editor Verriker, took charge of the stop-press multiple murder case.