Some Like It Hawk (Meg Langslow Mysteries)

When town clerk Phineas Throckmorton barricades himself in the Caerphilly courthouse basement to thwart an unscrupulous lender who has foreclosed on the town's public buildings, Meg and her neighbors work to clear Throckmorton's name of a trumped-up murder charge that would prevent the town from reclaiming its buildings. (mystery & detective).