
Swains Lock
by Ted Stabler
In 1995, Vin Illick is at loose ends after relocating to suburban Maryland with his fiancee Nicky Hayes. Scavenging planks from an abandoned shed near the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, he finds a cryptic note, dated March 29, 1924, that begins and ends as follows:
Charlie,
If it is April and I am missing, I fear I have been killed because of what happened today at Swains Lock. I may be buried along with the others at the base of three joined sycamores…
…one tree leads to the money, the second leads to the killers and the third leads to the dead. In your search for me you may find the truth. Be careful you don’t share my fate.
Yours respectfully, Lee Fisher
The note is accompanied by a photograph of a young couple posed above a sprawling waterfall. Penciled on the back of the photo are the words ‘L. Fisher and K. Elgin at Great Falls.’
Nicky wants him to search for a job, but Vin becomes determined to find ‘Lee Fisher’s truth.’ Was Lee killed and buried along with the others? What about the money? And what happened at Swains Lock?
Pursuing threads in the note, Vin encounters fresh clues that seem intended for him. His investigation turns life-threatening in the woods and he suspects that a recent acquaintance – a young widow associated with two accidental deaths – is stalking his search. Why? Vin closes in on Lee’s joined sycamores only to learn that the past won’t stay buried, and that a confrontation with destiny and vengeance awaits him at Swains Lock.
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