Paper Puzzle Harold — Michael Harvey

Clay walks into the MTJ newsroom fresh from college in 1974. He has no idea he holds the key to unraveling the circumstances behind a moonshiner's 1946 death. The following year Clay covers the case of the Red-Haired Stranger. It abruptly closed after 30 torrid days of news coverage. A decade later news clippings from the 1975 case appear in his bed. His security is compromised. As he makes a corkboard poster of the clippings, a young socialite is murdered gangland-style in Atlanta. Arrested and ordered to turn over his notes from the Red-Haired Stranger case, Clay turns to someone he has not spoken to in years, the black editor of a local paper. Social mores of the times have kept them apart, but that must change. Against harsh social pressure, both men work together to save Clay's career and solve the mysterious paper puzzle lying in Clay's bed.