Stocks rose, stocks fell, but Solly Spaeth always came out ahead. The fat little man with the computer mind was a financial magician -- a wizard at making other people's money disappear into his own pocket. Then Spaeth made one fast deal too many, and someone decided to make a different kind of killing. By the time Ellery Queen arrived on the scene, Solly had cashed in his blue chips, everyone including his loving mistress and his hating son was a suspect -- and Ellery had no margin for error as he plunged into a game of wits with a murderer too deadly to sell short...