Mixed bag of a murder mystery. One of the protagonists, a Newark, New Jersey police detective, affects a Scottish accent that he can turn on and off, and that can be quite annoying. He and a reporter for an evening newspaper in Newark try to unravel a series of suspicious deaths, all of which are tied to a rather mysterious doctor -- one who apparently advertised his expertise at murder. The tracing of the evidence is fairly well done, but as usual with a lot of mysteries at the end, the ending is a bit contrived and strange, and also, at one level, not particularly satisfactory. At least one other novel "Levinrew" wrote (it's apparently a pseudonym for a mysterious William Levine) was set in New Jersey. (As it turns out, William Levine was a dentist who practiced in various places in North and Central New Jersey, and his obituary in a Passaic newspaper specifically identifies him as "Levinrew.") ( )