A fascinating novel by the famous American writer Phyllis Whitney, in which a subtle love intrigue is surprisingly organically woven into the detective story and a mysterious detective story into the love story.

The main character of the novel, the charming girl Tracy, is trying to find out the cause of the death of her sister - before her death, she somehow strangely mentioned black amber... Many people come under suspicion, including her sister’s ex-husband, the artist Radburn, whose assistant Tracy becomes under an assumed name and... falls passionately in love with him. But couldn't her lover be a murderer? And doesn’t he pose a danger to Tracy herself, because someone mysterious - perhaps the object of her adoration - makes it clear that the same thing could happen to her as to her sister if she does not stop being interested in the details of her sister’s very mysterious death .

And then black amber beads come to the fore...