There is nothing mysterious about the death

of Graham Anderson Marshall llI, only em-

barrassing. The dignified senior partner

in one of Chicago s prestigious law firms,

Abbott & Windsor, is dead on arrival at

the hospital, the victim of a heart that fails

while in the throes of passion with a rather

expensive call girD. What is mysterious, how-

ever, is what Marshall leaves behind: a bizarre

codicil to his will that sets up a $50,000

trust fund for the maintenance of a pet s

grave.., only he never owned a pet.

Rachel Gold, a smart and savvy young law-

yer, is now retained by Abbott & W mdsor to

find out what s really buried at Wagging Tail

Estates. In a twisting trail of clues that ]eads

to a strange Puritan village in Massachusetts,

Rachel digs up more than anyone bargained

for...a sinister conspiracy marked by grave.

robbing, blackmail, sexual depravity, and

cold-blooded killing...a shocking secret leg-

acy as dangerous and deadly today as it was

when it began--more than three hundred

years before.