"There was nothing particularly clever about solving the case," Molly Millersays about her sleuthing of a murder two years ago on a Palm Beach golfcourse that bewildered even the FBI and won her local renown as a FloridianMiss Marple (A FairWay to Die/Humanics). "I knew the murderer and the victimbetter than the police, and I had ample opportunity to watch what went on.In fact, that is the whole secret of detective work - look and listen." But a heist of two valued French paintings from a Palm Beach mansionand a murder in its showplace garden present the seventyish well-to-domatron and self-styled "amateur sleuth" with another opportunity to test hercrime-solving savvy. After all, she was one of guests at a dinner party(hosted by her good friend Daphne Caplan, the somewhat younger widow of aworld-class financier and art collector) that preceded both crimes on theCaplan estate. Were the crimes related? Could any of the English-rearedsocialite's other guests have committed either ... or both? Why were themuch more valuable Impressionist treasures in the mansion left untouched?And how many cars did Daphne's next-door neighbor, the fabulous Contessa,actually hear late that night? Intrepidly Molly looks and listens while patiently amassing clues and,teaming up once again with FBI Special Agent Emilio Gonzalez, follows themurderer's trail to a shady art auction house and the victim's Miamiapartment. But it's at the splashy opening of a new Manhattan gallery whereMolly single-handedly uncovers the heist's astonishing motive and identifiesthe thief, a shocking revelation that had gone unsuspected by everyone elseeven though the ill-fated schemer had been in plain sight all along.