Three houses on a country road, each separated from the next by a wooded area. A woman lives in each house. Another wooded section begins after the third house. The woman in the first house claims to be a widow. The woman in the second house says she is married. The woman in the third house admits to being divorced. Across the road from the middle house is a vacant house, but men have been seen at that house. The woman in the middle house claims a man forced his way into her house one night. A little over a week after that, a dead body turns up in the woods. The medical examiner says he has been dead for more than five days and he can't identify him. He died from a blow by a blunt instrument to the back of the head. It is up to Cy and Lou to solve the murder. Most of the men they seek cannot be found.
This book is part of the Dekker Cozy Mystery Books series and is book #20 in the series.