Someone to watch over me

Description:

A bored Robert is a dangerous thing. While dismantling Grace and Favour's old, unwanted icehouse, Robert finds a mummified corpse and he's delighted to help with the investigation into who the man was. But then a local man turns up murdered and the case of the mummified corpse is pushed into the background. In the meantime, Jack, the local reporter, is off to witness the veterans' march on Washington.

subjects: Detective and mystery stories,  Depressions,  Brothers and sisters,  Mansions,  Mansions in fiction,  Fiction,  Inheritance and succession in fiction,  Brothers and sisters in fiction,  Inheritance and succession,  Lily Brewster (Fictitious character),  Depressions in fiction,  Robert Brewster (Fictitious character),  Murder,  Veterans March on Washington,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Brothers and sisters, fiction,  New york (state), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Brewster, lily (fictitious character), fiction,  Brewster, robert (fictitious character), fiction

People: President Hoover

Places: New York (State),  Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)

Times: 1932