[John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries 04] • Medora Sale

Toronto police Sergeant Rob Lucas holds the plot focus, while action alternates between sleuthing and romance. While the series' heroes, Inspector John Sanders and photographer Harriet Jeffries, vacation in America, Lucas probes the shooting death of a corporate chairman. A witness flees a ransacked safe house after he files his statement, and subsequent reports produce the same result. Finally Lucas locates the witness, but refuses to bring her in until he can plug the leak in his department.

Sanders returns and is assigned the case, still missing a detective and witness. A haphazard paper trail indicts a number of ignored but obvious suspects. Although Sanders investigates, Jeffries identifies the culprits. Lucas's musings about the power of the police and his relationship with the witness alter the tale beyond a routine procedural.