Plot

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case and returns to the lakeside cabins where the murder occurred, gathering all the old suspects together.

When Lieutenant Detective Barney Kale is offered a trip around the world at his third and final retirement, he announces he will delay it till Spring to finish full-time what he considers his only unsolved murder case, his friend Lowell Dixon's drowning ten years ago at Juniper Lake in the midst of a property development. Barney Kale informs everyone who was into it, including Seth Hazlitt. Worrying doc may get in trouble, Jessica and Amos go looking, and find ex-con Gary Roberts shot in Kale's cabin. They stay to help Sheriff McCoy and Kale investigate the new and old murders, if linked to each other and of course the other guests, including Gary's young widow, Maggie Roberts, whom he promised a fortune after this trip, Seth's period friend Cynthia Tate and her present friend Dr. Terence Mayhew.—KGF Vissers

When storied Det. Lt. Barney Kale retires from the force - for the third time - he decides that he's going to try to solve the one murder case that he has that's still open. Some 10 years before at Lake Juniper, a District Attorney by the name of Dixon was killed but Kale could never get enough evidence to arrest anyone. Dr. Seth Hazlitt had been living in Portland at the time and he and three other men had invested in a resort at the lake. Seth makes his way there knowing that Kale will be present and Jessica soon follows suit. They no sooner arrive when a young man, Gary Roberts, who had checked in the previous day with his wife, is found dead in Kale's cabin. It looks like Kale may have been the target of the shotgun killing but it's left to Jessica to unravel the clues and find the killer.—garykmcd