#3 in the Luis Mendoza series. Mendoza is made aware of the shooting death of a patrol officer by the officer's partner who believes the boys arrested for the shooting could not be guilty. Meanwhile, a con artist has apparently made off with the bank deposit of a marginally legal Temple. One of his flights of intuition has Luis link the two cases. Sgt. Hackett feels sorry for the ugly duckling daughter of an aging actress with ties to the Temple and introduces her to Mendoza's girlfriend Alison, who runs a charm school.Luis Mendoza series - The elegant Luis Mendoza again links hunches with facts to track down first, a cop killer, and second, the murderer of one Brooke J. Twelvetrees. The psychic gifts of Madame Cara of the Temple of the Mystic Truth, the unpleasant proclivities of Brooke J., the situation between a movie has-been and her daughter, give Mendoza opportunity to pursue every niggling detail and zero in.
