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Cyrus Skeen is appointed by Edgar Freund, the security attorney of Enoch Paige, a notorious lecturer incurred with the savage murder of his ex-wife, to find proof that will exonerate his consumer of the crime. Skeen soon discovers himself at probabilities with Freund, as well much like Detective Sergeant Robert Hoile of the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA police, who's identified to send Paige to the electric couch, and with Reverend Oswald Hoxley, the pastor of a favorite chapel. More murders are devoted. The case takes Skeen from the depths of the underworld to the top of San Francisco's prosperous contemporary society in a bizarre maze of clues and blind alleys. The storyline opens when Skeen hasfollowed an international artwork fence, Andre Petrossian, to a burlesque movie theater,hoping that the man will lead him to the artworks taken from a Boston museum.If the movie theater is raided by the authorities, Petrossian makes a run for it, but isshot inactive by Sergeant Robert Hoile, a homicide detective who had made a wagerwith a colleague that he could find the man accountable for molesting childrenin a city playground. Jointly Hoile and Skeen recover the cache of stolenartwork, and learn that Petrossian decided to market it to Handy Ollo, amobster who has a gambling ship off the city's coast. The next evening, whileattending a ballet, Skeen is approached by Edgar Freund, a trial attorneyfamous for representing gangsters and corrupt politicians. Freund needs to hireSkeen to find proof showing the innocence of his most recent consumer, Enoch Paige,a noted orator and promulgator of atheism. Paige, the child of a prosperous miningcompany founder, has been incurred with the brutal rape and murder of his ex-wife,Esmee Planchet. As body pile up and the most unlikely partiesbecome suspects, Skeen refuses to allow mob rule and the elusive dissimilitudeof clients and hostile witnesses to triumph over his dedication to the truth.
