[2] The novel was optioned for a television series in 1974 with the title Roman Grey.

[3] A pilot episode was filmed but not picked up for a full series.

[4] The pilot episode was shown as a TV movie entitled The Art of Crime and was poorly received.

[5] The story's protagonist is Romano Grey, a gypsy antique expert who is pulled into a murder investigation when one of his friends dies in an automobile accident and is posthumously accused of the murder of a girl whose body, neatly sliced into six pieces, is found at the scene of the accident.

The Montreal Gazette gave a positive review for the work, calling it "captivating".