In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Inspired by the Big Moose Lake murder case that was also the basis for Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy and the movie "A Place in the Sun."
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