The Marinski affair began as a dull mundane case involving a missing husband. OK so he was a rich missing husband, but he was nonetheless, still only a missing husband. |The case soon developed into one involving robbery, kidnapping, blackmail and murder. But was there really a kidnapping? And exactly wo is blackmailing who? Who actually carried out the robbery? Who committed teh murders? Who can you trust? Who can you believe? Is anyone actually telling the truth? What have they got to hide? And what connection was there with a jewel theft that occurred four years previously? All is not as it seems. Tom Kendall, private detective, had teh task of solving the mystery. He was usually pretty good at solving puzzles, but this one was different somehow. It wasn't that he didn't have any of the pieces. Oh no, he wasn't short of clues. It was just that none of teh pieces seem to fit together