With this ring - in a strange and violent way - Ray Whitehead wedded two women...There was his wife, of course...And there was - Cherry...Cherry who gave a man a feeling of roman candles going off, Cherry, who haunted his days and his long nights, Cherry, who drew Ray Whitehead along with her into a nightmare of love, lust and murder...It began one sweltering Coney Island day when Ray Whitehead slugged a man - and then watched Cherry stab him to death...At their feet was a cow-hide suitcase that held eighty thousand dollars in blood money...