Vancouver private eye, exiled Hungarian aristocrat Count Jason Kereso, has a problem: is a murder victim really who he claimed to be? The Count has to answer other important questions too: Can he trust his assistant, the capable and beguiling, but former Squamish Five hanger-on, Farrah Sunday? She insists she saw typecast actor Lawrence Paddon shot from behind in Victory Square. Why had Paddon, the one-trick-pony star of a 1980s stage play failure, been killed? Readers will recognize Vancouver neighborhoods and landmarks including Gastown, English Bay, the Sun Tower, the Dominion Building, and MacLeod's Books in this novel of danger, deception, and death.