Uneasy Relations

This is an outtake from a blog post discussing Gideon Oliver 15-17 over at The Irresponsible Reader.
I'm glad he doesn't return to this well too often, but when Elkins decides he's going to invent a fictional (no doubt inspired by a real) major archaeological find, he does it right. Serving as the backdrop for this puzzle, this find sounds like the kind of thing I read about in various and sundry Anthropology textbooks in college. Throw in some satirical takes on publishing, literary agents, and academics and this becomes a really fun read. Oh yeah, and the murder – there's that. That was a good puzzle, too.

I can't get into it, but the site of the major find is really the star of this one, and it's pretty cool. The solution to the murder was a nice twist, and the Skeleton Detective was as clever as ever.