Located in Wisconsin, approximately 400 miles north of Milwaukee, and for most of the twentieth century privately owned by the Redwing family of Mill Walk and used and by them and their friends amongst that island’s highest social strata. The good-sized lake is lined by weathered wooden cottages with porches and verandas. The day’s cocktails and meals are usually taken at the clubhouse, a handsome two-story structure. Of course, Eagle Lake by its very nature is a hotbed of adultery, snobbery, alcoholism, secret drug-taking, social bullying, and harrowing pretension. These people’s forebears were all gangsters and thugs, to speak truthfully, and to natives of the area resented their incusion but were unable to do anything about it. The murder of Janine Thielman in 1925, the greatest public scandal associated with Eagle Lake, was not solved correctly for six decades, but then it brought the whole house of cards crashing down with the most satisfying groans of despair and screams of panic.