Welcome to Litsy!

In this World War II-era historical mystery series debut by Joyce St. Anthony, small-town editor Irene Ingram has a nose for news and an eye for clues. Irene Ingram has written for her father�s newspaper, the Progress Herald, ever since she could grasp a pencil. Now she�s editor in chief, which doesn�t sit well with the men in the newsroom. But proving her journalistic bona fides is the least of Irene�s worries when crime reporter Moe Bauer, on the heels of a hot tip, turns up dead at the foot of his cellar stairs. An accident? That�s what Police Chief Walt Turner thinks, and Irene is inclined to agree until she finds the note Moe discreetly left on her desk. He was on to a big story, he wrote. The robbery she�d assigned him to cover at Markowicz Hardware turned out to be something far more devious. A Jewish store owner in a small, provincial town, Sam Markowicz received a terrifying message from a stranger. Moe suspected that Sam is being threatened not only for who he is�but for what he knows. Tenacious Irene senses there�s more to the Markowicz story, which she is all but certain led to Moe�s murder. When she�s not filling up column inches with the usual small-town fare�locals in uniform, victory gardens, and scrap drives�she and her best friend, scrappy secretary Peggy Reardon, search for clues. If they can find the killer, it�ll be a scoop to stop the presses. But if they can�t, Irene and Peggy may face an all-too-literal deadline.