The Body In The Basement

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge Barbara Brackman, quilt detective extraordinaire, and her excel ent guide to identifying and dating antique quilts, The Clues in the Calico, EPM Publications, Inc. Thanks, as always, to Ruth Cavin, my editor, and Faith Hamlin, my agent, for their insight, advice, and above al , friendship.

Editor's Note The Body in the Basement includes, at the end of the story, six ful recipes from Faith Fairchild's (fictional) cookbook, Have Faith in Your Kitchen, as wel as a number of descriptions in the text of the way Faith and Pix make some of the delectable New England dishes featured in the action.

Two residents are standing on the post office steps in a smal Maine coastal vil age observing the increased traffic on Memorial Day weekend.

“Wel , this time of year always brings two things: the summer people and the black flies," says one.

The other nods. "Yup, but you can kil the black flies.”

-ANONYMOUS