Under Their Spell

UNDER THEIR SPELL It’s 1956 and, as the Brooklyn Dodgers prepare to defend their world championship, Parker is hired by a woman to rescue her son who has become involved with low-level mobsters. At the same time, the detective’s wife, Doris, finds herself being harassed and threatened due to articles she’s written in her New York Times’ op-ed column regarding the possibility of the Dodgers moving their franchise. Soon the two situations overlap and plunge the couple into a strange combination of gambling, hypnotism, murder, and dealing with city’s new mafia boss. The attempt to sort it all out requires help from all their sources; Lawyer Annie Cleghorn, retired Inspector Ralph Klein, technical whiz Sam Quisenbury, and Pastor Liam Coughlin and his librarian wife, Mavis in order to put their lives back together.