Under Their Spell

UNDER THEIR SPELLIt's 1956 and as the Brooklyn Dodgers prepare to defend their world championship Parker is hired by a woman to rescue her son who has become involved with low-level mobsters. At the same time the detective's wife Doris finds herself being harassed and threatened due to articles she's written in her New York Times' op-ed column regarding the possibility of the Dodgers moving their franchise. Soon the two situations overlap and plunge the couple into a strange combination of gambling hypnotism murder and dealing with city's new mafia boss. The attempt to sort it all out requires help from all their sources; Lawyer Annie Cleghorn retired Inspector Ralph Klein technical whiz Sam Quisenbury and Pastor Liam Coughlin and his librarian wife Mavis in order to put their lives back together.