Kate Theobald, a reporter, and her husband pursue the demise of a blackmailer-spender at a party given by the presumptive heir to a considerable fortune which seems to be open to question. From birth registrations to graveyard inscriptions, there are many suppositious speculations above and below ground which keep this--not swinging--but going in an adequate fashion. By no means as exciting as Outbreak, written under an alternate alter ego, Lionel Black.