Milo Turner, the tall and (if he does say so) handsome scam artist whose adventures have entertained readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades, takes on a religious cult in his second book-length romp. At stake is a cool billion or so if he can prove that a high-tech mogul's handwritten will is a forgery. All Milo has to do is walk into the lion's den--the home town of the cult--and snatch a cache of love letters the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough. Unless somebody plans to kill him. . . . This new edition includes an Afterword by the author, two-time Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins, along with republication of the early short story upon which the novel was based. Publishers Weekly greeted Milo Turner's first adventure, The 120 Hour Clock (also from Perfect Crime), as "fun through the last wry word."

Author Biography

Francis M. Nevins has won two Edgar awards from the Mystery Writers of America for his scholarly work on Cornell Woolrich and Ellery Queen. By training a lawyer, he has written many essays on the nexus between fiction and the law. But to mystery fans, Mr. Nevins is at least equally known as the author of a number of novels and dozens of classic detective stories, many of them collected in Night Forms (2010).