"Patrick Cullen does an excellent reading of this surprisingly nonstuffy story. . . .this
most entertaining mystery keeps the listener's attention from start to finish."Library Journal

"[O]ne finds oneself completely engrossed. . . .Cullen's reading is. . .finely controlled understatement:
intelligent and free of distractions. Unusually clear sound further enhances the transparent effortlessness
of this recording."AudioFile

In Nicholas Kilmers sequel to Harmony in Flesh and Black, the debut of his mystery series set
in the Boston art world, were reacquainted with the passionate non-collector Fred Taylor. Fred, prowling
the antique and jumble shops of Bostons Charles Street, enters one of his old haunts, Oonas, which is
run by an unflappable, seen-it-all proprietress as honest about her wares as she is ruthless in her pricing
and secretive about acquisitions. Oona offers Fred a painting, the image of a common gray squirrel on a
chain, which he discovers has been cut from a larger canvas.

Believing it to be the work of an important eighteenth-century American master, he snaps up the fragment
and then sets out to find the rest of the painting. Soon, murder, mayhem, and other forms of vandalism join
the violence already associated with the painting.

Patrick Cullen, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., where he continues to live and work in the theater.