PI Jack Filippo investigates the allegedly accidental demise of Mingo Gideon, a professional poker player and part-owner of a failing Dallas bar, the Melon Patch Ranch. Gideon fell off a boat shared by his fishing and business partner, Rex Echols, whose grief at the loss of his partner is tempered by the $500,000 insurance policy he took out on him. By the author of Big Town.
