Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap.

When actor Richard Willard was accused of hiring an assassin to bring the curtain down on his estranged wife, Antony Maitland was brought in for the defense. Unfortunately, Willard had a powerful motive… and had been seen with the hit man shortly before the murder. But Maitland rarely accepted the obvious and before long the plot thickened—with evidence of a disputed inheritance, a scandalous love affair, and a nasty hunger for revenge—all pointing to the least likely suspect of all!