Description:Young Bill Beresford was cleaning up the preparation room of the funeral parlor where he worked when curiosity led him to open one of the large drawers. Inside, he found a body ... a body that had been cremated—yesterday. And yet, here it was—dead, to be sure, but definitely not cremated. . . .
The uproar that followed Bill’s discovery involved several people and soon became a matter for the sheriff to investigate. Obviously some body had been cremated. Whose body it was, why that death had not been reported, and what had caused that death were baffling questions that urgently needed answering. Bill did a little private investigating, and it didn’t take him long to discover that the business of bodies was not only very strange—it could be dangerous.
Scene: New England Town