Mary\'s patient, Veronica Vail, was murdered in her Park Avenue apartment.
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Roland confirms that an expensive painting has disappeared.
Franklin hypothesizes that a stranger broke into the Vail apartment to steal a painting.
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They interview her husband Roland, his daughter by a former marriage who never liked Veronica, and Carlos de la Cuesta, a handsome, black-haired drag queen in love with Roland.
John Franklin asks for her help in finding the killer.
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Mary\'s patient, Veronica Vail, was murdered in her Park Avenue apartment