In the fourth Rosa Epton mystery, Underwood's protagonist, whom Mystery Magazine declared 'one of mystery fiction's most talented attorneys', is called upon to defend the scapegrace younger brother of an acquaintance.
Then the acquaintance himself is murdered, his skull crushed with a statuette of the Indian goddess Lakshmi, and Rosa must divide her time between manipulating a magistrate smitten with her charms and divining the culprit's identity.
- ISBN10 0312330561
- ISBN13 9780312330569
- Publish Date 1 January 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 187
- Language English