The Bottom Line is Murder

Meet Paul Marston, a free-lance corporate investigator. His sassy, wise-cracking style doesn't always win him friends, but he's the guy they call in when the books look funny or the deals smell fishy. When Jack Carlisle, president and chief operating officer of Western Shores, a West Coast conglomerate, burns to death in a private plane crash in the Topanga Canyon, Marston doesn't believe it's an accident. Hired by Carlisle's seductive widow, Marston uncovers a trail of corporate greed, sexual infidelity and blackmail, family enmity, and murder that winds from L.A. boardrooms to San Francisco hotel rooms, from the Santa Monica pier ot the underside of Vegas. With the indispensible help of his sidekick, Angel Cantini, a tough, sexy female boxer (a real knockout, in more ways than one), Marston discovers how it all adds up on the bottom line and almost finds himself dead in the red.