Kearns on the Double

Bill Kearns is an unassuming, church-going, local character in Quinebaug, a sleepy, Central Massachusetts manufacturing town. A postman by profession, Bill thinks that he knows his town, as well as he knows his Church, and his family, until the hot summer of 1920. Overnight, Bill steps out of his well-worn walking shoes, into the gum shoes of an amateur detective, as “Black Hand” anarchists seem hell-bent on causing trouble in his town. The discoveries he makes about his town, and himself, help “save the day” and pave the way for a new profession- news correspondent for the local paper. A tenacious Kearns returns to investigate a ‘witching hour’ murder, on a remote road, in 1932; confronting the richest man within miles for the sake of a good story, and a grieving farm family.