The Deadly Jigsaw Puzzle

About the Book

My patient, Veronica Vail, was murdered in her Park Avenue apartment. Lt. John Franklin asks my help in finding the killer. We interview her husband Roland, his daughter by a former marriage who never liked Veronica, and Carlos de la Cuesta, a handsome, black-haired drag queen in love with Roland. Lt. Franklin hypothesizes that a stranger broke into the Vail apartment to steal a painting. Roland confirms that an expensive painting has disappeared. A maid named Lottie Lobell tells us that while looking out the window on the day of the murder, she saw a black-haired man run away from the building carrying a painting. He is found and brought in for questioning. Using purely psychological clues, I confront all the suspects with the truth. The killer collapses under my inquisition, and confesses.

About the Author

Dr. Alma Bond retired from a highly successful Manhattan practice as a psychoanalyst in 1991 to write full time. Since then she has had 10 books published, including Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make You Wise, The Autobiography of Maria callas, a Novel and Who Killed Virginia Woolf?