Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. Dr.Frederick Starks,a New York psychoanaliyst, has just received a mysterious, thretening letter. Now he finds himself in the middle of an horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks, Starks must guess his tormentor's identity.If Starks succeeds he goes free.If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will, destroy, one by one, fifty-two of Dr.Starks's loved ones-unless the good the good Doctor agrees to kill himself..