STEPHANIE

Vacationing in India with her married lover Errol Colton, Stephanie Locke accidentally discovers his connection with the drug trade and returns home uncertain about what to do—and, on the evidence, still undecided at the time of her death of a barbiturate overdose shortly thereafter. As her crippled war-hero father James, determined to get revenge on Colton, begins the dogged rounds of his own investigation, Naresh Prasad, recruited as a heroin carrier by Errol's associates, arrives in England and his own personal nightmare. Both James and Naresh, in their different ways, soon develop ambiguous relationships with the police: to say more would spoil the fun. Not much real mystery or detection here, but plenty of surprises from old pro Graham (Ross Poldark, etc., etc.).