Nell Dysart is living a too small life in a too small "apartment. Her marriage is finished, her career is inlimbo, and she feels she has the sex appeal of a skeletalgiraffe. But things might be about to change, for Nellhas landed a job at a down-and-out detective agencywith buge potential for redecoration and a boss wholooks easy to manage. A quick spot of dacbsbundnapping, blackmail and embezzlement later and Nellcan scarcely believe her life was ever dull. But whensomebody starts killing" people and unprofessional sexbecomes a sticky situation, she starts to wonder just howmany, more thrills one woman's life can withstand . . .