by Archer Mayor

A man is found dead in the mountains near Stowe, Vermont. He has been killed with an icepick, deep-frozen, and then dropped from an airplane--in such a brittle condition that some of his limbs have snapped off. And oh yes--he's been dead for sixty years. Joe Gunter, head of the fictional Vermont Bureau of Investigations, teams up with his usual sidekicks to get to the bottom of the murder. His investigation leads him to unsavory organized crime contacts on both sides of the Canadian border.