The high season in Palm

Beach began with a bang.

Socialite Melva Ashton

Williams shot her hus-

band after she caught him

in a compromising posi-

tion in the solarium with a

younger woman. Who

does Melva call first?

Not the police, but her old

chum Archy McNally, sole

investigator for McNally

& Sons Department of

Discreet Inquiries.

As Archy searches for

the mystery woman, he s

also juggling a case of

blackmail involving a

wealthy Palm Beach fami-

ly with a skeleton in its

closet linked to the

Titanic. With the help of

his fiancee and tart- tongued gossip columnist

Lolly Spendrift, Archy

tries to track down the

blackmailer while shield-

ing Melva s seductive

daughter, Veronica, from

the paparazzi. But in the

midst of some of Florida s

most eccentric charac-

ters, Archy soon realizes

there s one thing money

can t buy--the truth!