The Bronson Insurance Company specializes in fire and theft. They’d insure almost anything and occasionally they got hit and hit hard despite the persistence of old man Bronson, the president of the company. Runyan had done a lot of work for them from time to time so he wasn’t surprised when he got a call asking him to drop in. He was surprised when he was told the old man himself wanted to see him. Solomon's Rope was a fabulous jade necklace that was stolen from the Mavis family fifteen years ago by a gang of gunmen, led by a man named Jack Kelly. The insurance company had insured the necklace for three hundred thousand dollars, which was paid out - but they have a theory on why the necklace never turned up. They believe Jack Kelly broke it down, stone by stone...