Four Kinds of Rain.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)

* Four Kinds of Rain ROBERT WARD. St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35780-1

Robert Wells, the hapless psychiatrist hero of Ward's superior noir novel, has spent many thousands of hours helping people at his free clinic in Baltimore. While treating art dealer Emile Bardan, who's suffering from paranoid delusions, Wells learns that Bardan owns a priceless Sumerian mask representing Utu, the "god of justice and vengeance." The no-longer-altruistic Dr. Wells starts to scheme …