The first of the three stories involves the death of two wealthy old brothers, successively shot to death in exactly the same way at the same place in a garden full of old merry go round horses, cigar store statues and the like. The second involves a young woman traveling with an RV trailer with her uncle who suddenly finds that the trailer she is pulling is no longer hers, and has the dead body of an unknown man in it, and no uncle.
The third story begins with Asey Mayo arriving at Boston's Public Garden to pick up his cousin Jennie (en route home from Chicago). he finds she has left in pursuit of a young woman who was modeling for a phootgrapher on one of the swan boats who fled when the photographer was shot. I loved this story --i think it was one of the first Mayo stories i read --because like Jennie I love the swan boats in the Public Garden because I remember riding them as a child . A mystery that involves a murder weapon thrown on one of the boats was bound to attract me. ( )