Amazon Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: SterlingHouse Publisher, Inc. ISBN-10:  1563152886 Type: Fiction Pages: 190 Copyright: Jan 1 2002 Margo Brown is just your average Indiana schoolteacher...who also happens to be an amateur detective. So when Margo finds an old gun buried in her garden, she does what anyone in her position would do: She uncovers a crime and tries to solve it.

Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster
Language arts teacher Margo Brown, who tracked down the killer of one of her students in Why Johnny Died, finds herself drawn into amateur sleuthing again in Marlis Day's Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster, this time because she discovers an old gun buried in her garden. Believed it was used to kil the titular fellow some five decades earlier, Margo and her pal Roxie set out to find the truth behind the unsolved murder, but it quickly becomes clear that the case has present-day significance.
*Publishers Weekly

Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster
This intriguing puzzle is fleshed out with bucolic details of cooking, gardening, yard work, and gossip in rural Indiana. A pleasant read; for regional and larger mystery collections.
*Library Journal

Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster
The Hoosier state has its secrets, but not for long. Day's droll wit is surpassed only by her deft hand at plotting.
*Abigail Padgett, author of the Bo Bradley and Blue McCarron Mysteries