[5][6] Kinsey Millhone receives a contract from ex-con Alvin Limardo to deliver a cashier's check for $25,000 to a 15-year-old boy named Tony Gahan.

His first wife, Essie, refused to divorce him due to her fanatical religious views, but Daggett still remarried on his release from prison.

Kinsey tracks down an ex-con friend of Daggett's, Billy Polo, who is revealed as Doug Polokowski's brother.

Kinsey discovers that shortly before his death, Daggett was staggering about drunk at the marina in the company of a blonde woman in a green outfit.

Coral also admits to scheming with Billy and Lovella to rob Daggett of money he had come by illicitly in prison.

[5] Publishers Weekly gave a more mixed review, saying that it was an enjoyable read but finding flaws in its plot.