Death at Windward Hill: An elderly wealthy woman dies in her bed, but it is soon discovered to be murder. Her family kept up the barest of friendly overtures to stay in the will, but would any of them have killed for the fortune? A second murder complicates the plot, and then there’s the matter of the missing nurse … The police have a puzzling mystery to unravel.

Murder in the French Room: A woman is murdered in the fitting room of a large department store, leaving the police (particularly Detective Inspector Dan Bratton) with too many possible suspects. It’s not long before there are plenty of motives, also.

Helen Joan Hultman was a Dayton, Ohio, native, teaching high school English there for 35 years. She wrote six mystery novels, most inspired by local Ohio settings.