.... ut love (so ends the quotation) and so it would seem to be according to the detours love takes in this successor to Greenmask. Sergeant Maddox is again he deus ex machina in several cases which confront the L.A. Polish Department. Policewoman Susan Carstairs, attracted to her chief and resentful of his detachment, brings the disappearance of a teen age girl to his attention, and Detective D'Arcy finds him indispensable in the series of meaningless murders which follow and are eventually correlated. A crowded blotter with considerable confusion involved.