The narrator, a young Englishman, visits Los Angeles for the first time, and has an upsetting encounter with an ex-girlfriend, Tink, and her child, that ends ambiguously.
This sequence of events angers Raguel's by-the-book superior, Lucifer, ultimately prompting his doubt and subsequent fall.
Murder Mysteries was adapted by the author into an audio drama, which was produced by Seeing Ear Theater in 2000, starring Brian Dennehy and narrated by Michael Emerson.
[3] Reception to the various incarnations of the story have been positive,[4] with Publishers Weekly saying that the graphic novel's "crisp" and "vividly rendered" drawings capture the haunting sense of loss and isolation in the mythic tale of love and jealousy.
S. T. Joshi suggests the events of this story provide a rationale for Lucifer's eventual revolt against the Presence.