New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery set in New York City and introducing septuagenarian Reuben Frost, a semiretired former leader of a prominent law firm, his elegnt wife Cynthia, a former ballerina, New York Police Department homicide detective Luis Bautista. Writer Stefan Kanfer has called the Frosts Òthe most enjoyable pair of married sleuths since Mr. and Mrs. North.Ó 268 pp. ISBN: 0-67160628x.