aw Thanksgiving Day LAPD homicide detective gate Dill failed and her partner Ed Taylor are called to the apartment building on the edge of Beverly hills to investigate a pre-meditated and pedalus murder. no one appears apparently grieved by the shocking and tool Time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair Shirley not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu who worked on the motion picture industry during a blacklist years and lose Sinclair for having been a friendly witness before a house on American activities community. nor Sinclair's latest ex-wife grieved or even his children. nor film actress and former Palomar Maxine marlowe. nor deadly Kincaid who's brilliant screen place in Clair stalled. Norland lady Hazel Turner whose husband Jerome is deceased but not exactly gone. Kate sifts through tantalizing clues. a set of handcuffs fastening the murdered man to his bed of death. and album Wagner opera bourbon bottle lightly dosed with arsenic a silver frame missing its photo. she also is a quadary in Quan quandary over her fascination with Paula Grant who discovers the word man. until she is suddenly confronted by whole new aspects of herself uncovered by Amy Grant Paula Grant's remarkable beautiful young niece. best-selling novelist Catherine borders for us and this continuation of her unique mystery series presents another extraordinary gallery of characters and brings into modern day a tuberant and fascinated of Hollywood history.