In the small town of Walpurgis Minnesota murder isn't typical; it's a curiosity when the corpse is found made into a snowman.Sheriff Plum Venerable doesn't know the first thing about heading a murder investigation but that doesn't stop him from settling old scores and unearthing secrets best left buried.Assisted by his well-meaning but trying deputy and his Amazonian granddaughter, Plum encounters fellow eccentrics of the odd town as he tries to find the murderer of the town's wealthiest millowner's son-in-law.What started out as a novel escapade turns into a grim, unwanted duty as the chase reveals a secret too horrible to contemplate and brings death to the door of someone Plum loves.

A snow globe becomes a murder weapon in this chilling cozy mystery in the Snow Globe Shop series. Mayor Lewis Frost has always been known as Frosty to his friends—not that he has many these days. Controversies swirling around the city council have members wondering if Frosty is trying to snow them. After one councilman storms off in a huff, the mayor turns to curio shop manager Camryn Brooks and asks her to consider taking a seat on the council. Later, when Cami goes to his office to discuss the proposal, her blood runs cold. She finds Frosty dead, and the very snow globe she sold him earlier that day lies in sparkling shards on his carpet—along with a large diamond. Does the snow globe—which features a peculiar tableau of an armed man and three menacing bears—hold a clue to Frosty’s demise? One way or another, it’s up to Cami to shake things up before the killer’s trail goes cold... Snow globe-making projects and tips included!

Ten-year-old Winks and thirteen-year-old Josh inadvertently bring a serial murderer back to life when they use his hat and scarf to dress a snowman for a winter carnival, freeing him to seek revenge against the vigilantes who killed him.

Report for 1922 includes a summarized account of preliminary and organization meetings in 1919,1920 and 1921.