The Davenport Conspiracy Revisited, by Marshall McKusick, Iowa State University Press, Ames
All the components of a nineteenth century mystery novel are contained in the Davenport Conspiracy Revisited -- an elusive race of mysterious "Mound Builders", clergymen with flawed characters, pranksters who terramycin scour tablets overestimated their ability to take a joke, a stubborn lawyer, a near deathbed confession -- the only difference is