Ward Eastman finds a skeleton in rugged terrain near the hamlet of South Branch. From the moment he starts to unravel his first mystery, Eastman finds himself enmeshed amid layers of geneology, history, and topography....
While surveying a large estate in the central Catskills, Ward Eastman discovers the body of the recently murdered owner in a remote cabin. All doors and windows are locked and soon there are too many suspects....
A deer hunter is lost in a blinding blizzard. Eastman and his surveying crew are joined by law enforcement officials and volunteers as the search intensifies. But was the hunter really lost? A mystery novella with five masterful short stories....
Ward Eastman is back. Norman Van Valkenburgh's surveyor-sleuth (the only surveyor in American mystery fiction) once again follows clues to unravel decades-old murders, this time in the Esopus Valley during construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and in...