No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher. ISBN: 1-4013-8856-6 1. Maine—Fiction. I. Title. Hyperion books are available for special promotions, premiums, or corporate training. For details contact Michael Rentas, Proprietary Markets, Hyperion, 77 West 66th Street, 12th floor, New York, New York 10023, or call 212-456-0133. First eBook Edition: June 2007 Fo r G e o r ge P u s e y S L I P K N O T 1 “why did you move the body?” “The tide was coming in.” I was relieved that my now seemingly stupid question was not flagged as such by either tone or content of reply. The man I was soon to know as Cal Dunham spoke in an oddly pleasant, nicotine-stained voice. His reply revealed no inflec-tions of “dumb broad,” nor did he voice any of the questions that I assumed he might have liked to ask me. Why and how had I appeared, notebook and pen in hand and camera slung on shoulder, at the crack of dawn in the seaweed-strewn and barnacled ledges below the west side of the pier at Turners’ Fish Plant in Green Haven, Maine, just as the body of Nick Dow was discovered washed up on the beach?
