num_pages: 256
description: Trying to determine why a previously unquestioned, forty-year-old case has been reopened, introverted law-firm researcher Owen Keane encounters locked archives that force him to resort to the local gossip for answers. Reprint.
language: English
title: Deadstick
titlecomplete: Deadstick
characters: Owen Keane
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 70
series: Owen Keane Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Worldwide Library