After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he follows her up to the gates of Fulham Palaceβ¦and goes no further. Days later, when he hears of the death in the palaceβs walled garden, Jury will wonder if he could have averted it. Bit is the victim the same woman Jury saw? As he and Melrose Plan follow the complex case from the Crippsian depths of Londonβs East End to the headier heights of Mayfairβs art scene, Jury will realize that in this captivating womanβ dead or aliveβhe may have finally met his matchβ¦