The Ice House on Bald Eagle Lake
An ice fishing house left on the lake after the thaw deadline. Inside, a library book and a man who should not be there.
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Every fish house has to be off Bald Eagle Lake by the first Monday in March. One little green shack is still out there on Tuesday, and when the county deputy finally opens the door, he finds a space heater, a card table, a Lake Street library book and a retired banker who everyone thought was in Arizona. Dot Engquist knows that book. She recommended it to him herself. The third Lake Street Library mystery.
The rule on Bald Eagle Lake was simple. All fish houses off the ice by the first Monday in March, or the county pulls them off and sends you the bill. By Tuesday afternoon there was one house left, a green plywood shack with a stovepipe and a hand-painted sign that said Gone Fishin, Back Never. Deputy Larry Ostby walked out to it on the soft ice with a rope around his waist. The door was frozen shut. When he finally got it open, the heater was cold, the fishing line was still down the hole, and
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I spent thirty-eight years behind the reference desk of a branch library in St. Paul, and I can tell you that people will confess things to a librarian they would never tell a priest. They want a book on divorce, or poisons, or how long a body stays frozen in a lake, and they always say it is for a friend. My sleuth, Dot Engquist, is a retired reference librarian who still cannot walk past a misfiled book. I write on the couch by the front window, with a cup of coffee going cold and my husband Arne asking what is for supper. The answer is usually hotdish.
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