Storme: The Thing in the Brook

A professor, who is using his vacation to work on his treatise on slime molds, stumbles across his neighbor, a miserly farmer, strung up in a tree. Much against his will, he is drawn into a strange mystery, urged along by a friend from the city who rushes to the countryside to play amateur detective. Additional First published in 1937. Author Note Pseudonym of Philip Van Doren Stern. Review "Here’s a swiftly-paced mystery tale, laid in a country village. The suspense is quickly established and cleverly maintained." (Honolulu Advertiser , Oct. 26, 1937)