Reluctantly voluptuous Vicky Bliss (previously seen in Borrower of the Night, 1973) is one of the least irritating personalities in the recent slew of lightly feminist sleuths; after all, she's "probably the only person in the whole world under thirty who knows all the words to 'Lover, Come Back to Me.'" And she quotes Thurber. So it's no pain tagging along with art historian Vicky when she heads for Rome, urged on by her roly-poly Munich museum boss to investigate a possible forgery network involving substitutes for the world's greatest pieces of jewelry. Breaking into a darkened antique shop, being abducted a few times, roaming around a palatial villa, failing for a handsome but insulting Englishman—Vicky goes through all the romance-suspense motions, but with good humor, wry comments, and blithe spirit.