Time — As in all Gardner mysteries, now.
Place — A fashionable West Coast resort.
Some of the dramatic and colorful characters involved—
TED SHALE: all he wants is to sell wealthy Addison Stearne some hotel supplies — and he...
The KGB was planning to wreck the U.S. economy by forcing the biggest banks to dump all their stocks at the same time. A plant in one of Boston’s old families — and the manipulation of their vast financial power — would trigger total economic...
Abner Procane is the greatest thief in the world. And he’s in trouble. Philip St. Ives, certainly the greatest professional go-between in the world, is hired to help Procane. And go-betweening being what it is for St. Ives, he is soon involved in...