Detective Bass earned his pay with this case. This was a crime committed at night in a vacant lot and not discovered until morning. She was an aspiring actress, who worked as a waitress in a nearby restaurant. Detective Bass determined her artist ex-boyfriend, rich and spoiled, knew more than what he said, and her restaurant co-workers had their own sad stories to tell. Only when the murderer's own life was threatened, did he call out for help. And it was Detective Bass who came to his rescue in that same vacant lot.

Stephen Randorf grew up in the Midwest region of the U.S. His education includes history and creative writing.

The Detective Bass Mystery novels and novellas specifically center around Detective Gilbert Bass, a middle-aged, desk-prone police detective who solves the low-profile cases of an urban city.