New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Police Chief Mario Balzic, set in the fictional town of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania - a small coal mining town where most of the coal has run out - and one of the hardest to find titles in this series. Rocksburg is enduring a record breaking heat wave on Memorial Day weekend, and the body of a young woman, a student at the local junior college is found in her room, strangled with her own bra and with a blank sheet of paper on her. The NY Times called his books "The most poignant studies of post-Industrial Age depression in modern crime literature." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-841503354.