About the book: 1943 / Lazily strolling through the shopping district at three o'clock in the afternoon, Lester Leith became clearly interested in a pair of silk stockings. But not in store windows, but on the frisky legs of a young beauty in a short skirt. Leicester spotted her in the idle crowd fifty feet ahead. Leith was a keen connoisseur of beauty. But since his interest in this kind of thing was to a certain extent abstract, he made no effort to shorten the distance. Lester loved to walk, watching the panorama of life flowing by. His attention could be attracted by a characteristic face in the crowd, or by a passerby hurrying somewhere. At the moment he was occupied by a pair of slender legs.