Ulat, the best hunter in the village, is dead. Ledeth, the aging shaman, must prepare the body so the victim's spirit may rest. Many of the Clan are lost to the innumerable hazards of their world, but when Ledeth realizes Ulat's death was the deliberate act of another human, he must find the killer - for the good of the Clan.
Five thousand years before Sherlock Holmes or "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," there was crime. And where there is crime, there are those committed to justice.
For, without justice, we are nothing more than clever apes.
A novelette.