Crime was the last thing Durham solicitor Frank Hales had ever expected to be embroiled in, yet from the moment he got the news that his senior partner had vanished after milking a trust fund, he was plunged into an unfamiliar world. He found his missing partner dead in a secret love-nest, and there were indications that the prostitute he had been associating with may have been murdered too. In an effort to save his firm, his career and his marriage, Frank engaged a private eye, but his troubles did not diminish and he realised he was being framed...