1944. Men are fighting in Europe, women are building airplanes, and the war brings thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman to work in the editorial office of a local newspaper. In a tiny Oklahoma town crushed by the summer heat, a murder has occurred. Everyone knows the culprit of the ominous events that have disturbed the area, but the girl has to see and hear something that is not at all intended for children’s ears and eyes. A detective plot and skillfully written psychological details, ethnographically accurate details of the life of a provincial town - all this keeps the reader in suspense until the very end. pages where the mystery of an old murder is revealed... Or several. Carolyn Hart's classic detective story "Letter from Home" - for the first time in Russian.