Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages showing average wear. Pages with normal age discolouration. 282 pages. Published by New English Library, 1992. ISBN 0450562522.

When they found Lewis Starrett dead in the street, he still had his wallet and credit cards.

Also a gold and diamond ring and a gold watch. Both the products of Starrett Fine Jewelry Inc. Total value: somewhere around forty-five grand.

Cause of death: the knife wound between the shoulder blades. An eight inch blade wielded by an amateur was the police deduction.

Which was why, before paying out on his $3 million policy, the insurance company dragged claims investigator Dora Conti away from the leftovers of the family Thanksgiving Day dinner and sent her down to the Big Apple to meet the grieving and deeply unattractive family.

And to meet Detective John Wenden who very much wanted her to break the Seventh Commandment.