Spring has come to Detroit's Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would
like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case
of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish
settlers of neighboring Hamtramck, when old Martha Evancek hires him to
look for her missing grandson. But even before Walker gets a chance to
investigate, he's presented with a second case: an eminent Russian
novelist who fears that someone is out to kill him. Walker knows the two
cases are connected, but finding that link might cost him his life.