IN 1940 LELAND LANGTRY RAN OFF WITH HIS REDHEADED SECRETARY AND $10,000 IN COMPANY FUNDS. Or so everyone believed. Forty years later, Langtry's remains are found in a boarded-up silver mine tunnel. And as the knife still jammed between his ribs had belonged to his partner in Lang-Star Mining, Tom Starbuck--also long since dead--a jury decided that Tom had killed Langtry. But Tom's widow, Delia, resists the verdict and persuades that very private investigator Conan Flagg to find the real murderer--an impossible job made tougher by the curious reticence of nearly everyone in town whenever Leland Langtry is mentioned...