A dead lawyer, a stolen Rembrandt, a beaten ex-girlfriend, a confused golfing syndicate, a violent gypsy mob, and a bloodied 3 iron. So begins the new Sam Carew mystery. A lawyer is found bludgeoned to death by a golf club in his own home and when Jim Omerod is fingered as the killer his wife, an ex girlfriend of Sam's has no where else to turn. Sam believes Jim to be innocent but his investigation is delayed as he makes enemies with the local travellers by hospitalizing three of them and has to help escort a valuable painting across to Unsworth from Amsterdam.