"The law firm I work for isn't particularly colorful. We have no lean, rural philosopher peeling apples into his hat with his feet on the desk. We have no hard drinking, superbly muscled young man who solves murders one jump ahead of the police. Connolly, the senior partner, is fat, fifty-seven and an expert in corporation tax law. Huckbert, the junior partner, is an excellent violinist, and only went into law because his father-in-law convinced him that a musician couldn't make much of a living. But, the other day an unusual case did come into the office, and I was assigned... I was still thinking about it at home that night as Liz and I lingered over the coffee...