Hazel McAdams may have saved a Georgetown landmark by encasing it in stucco. The former school superintendent and owner of the nearby Hotel de Paris bought the historic Snetzer Building in 1926 and used it as an antique shop.
All good mysteries require a crime, a culprit, and a savvy sleuth to connect the two. Creede, a former mining town at the mouth of Willow Creek Canyon in the silvery San Juans, never lacked for any of these ingredients.