The Evil Days

His twenty-fifth mystery novel. In this witty and sophisticated novel the moral standards of the Dawson family collapse in a dream of riches. When Caleb's wife, Sally, finds a leather pouch in the car park of the local shoppingcenter they discover that not only are the jewels worth $250,000 but they belong to the wife of a nearby acquaintance. Their moral problem is hopelessly complicated when Caleb becomes involved in amurder investigation of a neighbor. Caleb gropes in a miasma of deception, until the stunning climax on the seventh day of his awful week.