NEW JERSEY: Mystery Killing

Writer Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dinner at the White House), had known hard times in his 38 years in the U.S. He had been a Yugoslav immigrant boy at 14, a newspaper loader, a soldier, a textile worker, a longshoreman. When he moved in 1936 to a century-old farmhouse and 40 acres of land in New Jersey's stony, wooded Hunterdon County hills, he took to the placid rural life with something akin to jubilance. "Louis," nearby residents took to saying, "is a good neighbor—none better."

But as time wore on, they saw him...

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