Baseball was not a sport Detective Bass understood nor was he familiar with the fashion design industry but when a small-time hoodlums body was pulled from a frozen river on a cold February morning that he understood. A young fashion designer became a prime suspect after spring training camp ended and a newspaper editor investigating doping in sport disappeared.In this unsettling case of a murdered informant one murder leads to another and passions rise a Detective Bass closes in on kidappers gamblers and a love-struck baseball player.