When Andrea Gower's body is discovered in an editing suite, with gashes in her wrists and two razor blades nearby, the cause of death seems obvious, with the words she spoke only hours before taking on a completely different meaning ... Working as a radio actor for the BBC was all new to Charles Paris: a new kind of work, a new jargon and a lot of new faces – some of them quite pretty. But Charles, amateur sleuth and fond of the odd tipple, can't get the dead girl out of his mind. And when the trail leads him to New York and back, by way of a DJ, an American conman and another dead body, it becomes only a matter of time before the clues start falling into place ...