Story

A chief superintendent with Scotland Yard, Christine Marimede's life was regimented until word came of her son's disappearance during the last year of his studies abroad. Upon traveling to his last known whereabouts, she was greeted by a woman claiming to be his fiancée—one never known to exist. Months of reported sightings amounted to nothing in the early-goings, but always Marimede remained certain the woman she had met was hiding something of relevance. Exactly what remained a mystery until receiving the invitation to join a tournament of logic and deduction, one that offered more than one reminder of her past. Included among the participants was the woman she had long trailed and the last to see her son alive. As the victor, she is assured that the revealing evidence in her son's case will be hers to use in attaining the justice she's long sought.