The Broom-Squire is about a young man named Jonas Kink who creates brooms out of heather and birch trees. One day, he encounters a baby and a dead man, thus involving him in a murder mystery beyond his wildest imagination. Excerpt: "On a September evening, before the setting of the sun, a man entered the tavern of the Ship in Thursley, with a baby under his arm. The tavern sign, rudely painted, bore, besides a presentment of a vessel, the inscription on one side of the board: "Now before the hill you climb, Come and drink good ale and wine."