In the fifth Promise McNeal mystery, set in the Western North Carolina mountains, Promise's psychic abilities prickle when Little People of America's past president, Dick Jest, stocks up Cuban cigars and his Winnebago from Florida to build an academy for circus performers on the site of an abandoned amusement park. When the magician's assistant is murdered in a dilapidated tram car, the dramatic, Czech trapeze artist, Ruta, draws Promise into the mystery with a strange Tarot Card deck--which she insists she's held for Promise since 1939... -- back cover
