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Synopsis
A cranky 68-year-old newspaper librarian finds herself investigating a murder that might be linked to one that had occurred 50 years earlier.
The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio
When Gordon E. (Sweet Gordon) Sweet, a professor of "garbology," is found shot to death at an archaeological dig in the town landfill, Maddy's thoughts leap back to the 1950's, when he and she were campus beatniks, charter members of the Meriwether Square Baked Bean Existentialist Society. "We listened to jazz, drank little cups of coffee and talked and talked and talked," she explains to the young librarian who gives her a hand on this case, which is both a brainteaser and a comic salute to the rather terrifying charm of its heroine.