From the back cover of first Warner books edition:
'It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Polly Street, where a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail and grudges were settled in blood and Spanish. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip - fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring. But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs and passions, he couldn't guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common.'

The Ferguson Affair
The Ferguson Affair
First Warner Books edition, 1991.

Trivia:
Working titles for this book was 'Death Mask' and 'The Silver Dollar Tree'.
Although there is nothing particularly important gained by substituting Gunnarson for Archer - Millar was demonstrating to himself and his readers that he wasn't dependant on Archer - he actually intended to bring Gunnarson back in a later book.

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