Little David

"In 'Little David,' newsman Kiel St. James helps the local police track down a killer who has both a political grudge and a passion for biblical weaponry. Two members of the city council of Catherine, Alabama, are found slain in a bizarre fashion---by small stones, apparently fired from a slingshot. With no clues except the peculiar choice of weapon, Chief of Detectives Orson Boles gets nowhere fast He finally resorts to staging a slingshot contest as one of the events at the Catherine town picnic--a tactic ridiculed by St. James........"