A pleasant Mystery with Intrigue Romance History and No Dirty Words, taking place right after World War II. It ends so Completely and Happily, and brings forcefully to the reader how World War II soldiers had to adjust to life, like today, unfinished matters have to be solved. This involves a missing gambler and two returned infantry men. One of them is the author. It begins in Portland, Oregon and moves to Australia. Then like the Alexander Botts' stories prior to World War II, it sets up dialogue via fascinating cables between them in Australia and Portland. The author, Lionel Domries was in the First Infantry Division overseas in World War II, writes all his novels in great detail and they all end very completely and very happily. We want our current financial and political problems to end happily, so step back to the late 1940s and ENJOY A HAPPY MYSTERY NOVEL.