Who murdered the champagne lady, Renata? A revenge mystery with clues from English literature. Mysterious letters whose clues are in the works of Kipling, Dryden, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Tennyson challenge the police to save a murdered widow's secret lovers. The baffling letters sent by the killer are a dare to save the intended victims.
Asked by a longtime friend and by Lieutenant Kenneth Mullins to help solve her murder and other killings of club members, Mitchell Pappas is running out of time to decipher the coded letters to end the killer's revenge.
Tragic obsessive love and hate propel the multi-layered plot to its unexpected ending.