Sam Benedict makes a brief courtroom appearance again (he's been exhumed from a television serial and author Ehrlich, by the way, is the trial lawyer) when the killings of a father and son leave a large estate to be settled up between a brother and sister. Then there's a mad young man called the ""Astro"" on the loose. . . . Lotsa plot, a little compulsory sex, and you keep wondering why two writers seem to have more than four thumbs.