The pearl plot : murder at the old homestead
(Book)

"Two murders, a century apart, a pearl in a pack rat's nest, and rumors of a lost silver cross create modern problems for Millie Whitehall. Finding the body of a missing university professor in the root cellar halts Botanist Millie Whitehall's and Archaeologist Lydia Hamilton's inventory of an abandoned homestead. An autopsy shows the professor was murdered, stirring up rumors of a lost silver cross and memories best left forgotten. Another horrific murder occurred at the cabin in 1913. Millie uncovers the link between the two murders, but vandalism at the site jeopardizes the plan for making the homestead a national historic site. Millie is determined to complete the inventory, even though the professor's murderer could still be around and her own life endangered." -page [4] of cover