He keeps digging, looking for the story while the other reporters are covering Governor Roark’s political future, Senator Clark’s plans, and small struggles over legislation. When another reporter is killed driving Cotton’s car, Cotton at first thinks only it was an accident.
He finds Mac’s notebook, traces back the other man’s investigation, and wonders what Mac could have been excited about. A few minutes later Mac is found dead.So begins Cotton’s at first desultory investigation into the big story Mac was working on. A few minutes later a man enters and rummages through Mac’s desk looking for his notebook, telling Cotton that Mac forgot it and sent his friend for it. Cotton doesn’t really believe him, but Mac heads on home. Cotton tries to get him on home but Mac says he’s celebrating breaking the story of a lifetime. Merrill McDaniels, known as Mac, comes into file his story, but he’s a little drunk and Cotton offers to file something for him and tell his editor he went home sick. This mystery is the second one published by Hillerman, after his first mystery set in Navajo country, The Blessing Way.In the Fly on the Wall, John Cotton is a statehouse reporter and has just filed his story when a colleague comes into the pressroom.
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