When Peter Brock, a senior partner of the law firm Morrison & Brock, was discovered slumped over his desk, his mysterious death would prompt questions. Why would this successful young attorney take his own life-if that were truly the case, as suspected? Peter's partner, Jack Morrison, knows why. But, what he really wants to know is where are the millions of dollars his partner purportedly embezzled from James Campbell, a wealthy New York diamond dealer? He believes that Bernie Baranski, Peter's Administrative Assistant, knows, and he is determined to get the information out of her through any means-while Bernie is just as determined that he not succeed. Who will prevail when these two determined and devious adversaries engage in a classic strategy of diamond cut diamond? Hmm . . . 'tis a mystery.