A Title to Murder — James C. Work

It is déjá-vu for David McIntyre. Not only is he back to teach another summer seminar at Western Nebraska Community College in Alliance, but he is flooded by memories of the seminar he had taught the previous summer when Cass Deering had enrolled in the class. Cass had been an enthusiastic student who had dropped out in the middle of the class without any explanation. McIntyre learns that not only did Cass drop out of his class, she also disappeared. The man with whom she was living was found stabbed to death and Cass became the prime suspect. The path Cass followed seems to have involved a strange monument known as Carhenge, a stone circle like Stonehenge in the British Isles after which it was fashioned down to minute detail. Strangely, it may have been to Carhenge that Cass Deering wandered after she disappeared.

James C. Work was born in Colorado where his family has lived for four generations. Western American literature first heard of Work in 1984 when he took on the job of restoring Jack Schaefer's novel Shane for the University of Nebraska Press. Since then he has published Prose and Poetry of the American West, and 100 or so essays.