Religious sensitivities flare when a man is mysteriously killed after desecrating a treasured edition of the Hebrew Torah. As Detectives Fontana and Green dig deeper they find the dead man was paid by the cousin of a prominent synagogue member to defile the book, which might prompt a lucrative property sale. But as Assistant D.A. McCoy probes the family feud, his prosecution is hobbled by political pressure and a debate concerning whether the greater crime was done to the slain man or to the holy text.