When a beautiful and mysterious Gypsy professor elicits his aid, southern small town private investigator Clay Latham has little idea that he himself is already a part of a hidden mystery decades in the making. Is he the pursuer or the pursued in the deadly maelstrom of violence, greed, and Romani power that threatens not only his life but the very foundations of his cynics' heart? An obsessed, scheming madman and his sadistic Dwarf henchman hold all but the last Tarot card as time runs out on a mystery bounded by the infamous Mississippi graveyard of the Gypsy King! This hilarious and dramatic romantic mystery thriller (that seems a cross between A Confederacy of Dunces and The Maltese Falcon) will keep you guessing until the final pages-who will grasp Alexander's Ring?