
Elizabeth, who has been represented in letters sent from Scotland, finally flies home to help the fledgling attorneys.

P.'s client's car and a wealthy businessman from New York wants to buy the house very quickly. The pace picks up when the body of a young woman is found in the trunk of A. Bill's mother hires him to secure her divorce from his father, and eight elderly women ask him to sell their mansion, the Home for Confederate Widows, so they can move into a nursing facility meanwhile A. The firm's first few cases aren't auspicious. P.) Hill, descendant of the southern general known by the same initials.

Elizabeth's brother, Bill, a new lawyer, sets up shop in Danville, Va., with Amy Powell (A. Although billed as an Elizabeth MacPherson mystery, there is too little mystery and too little McPherson in this convoluted tale, which will please Civil War buffs more than mystery fans.
