The first detective novel to appear on national bestseller lists. Lawrence, attorney-in-law, on his way to deliver valuable documents of a criminal case, wakes up (in a train) on the wrong side of the bed, in the wrong bed, with the wrong clothes and suitcase, and the victim of a frame-up. Blakely knows that he has to find the real criminal before his almost-certain arrest; only, unfortunately, he is not the typical tough-guy hero.