One day Peter Duluth wakes up to find his legs in a cast and his memory gone.There are compensations - the blonde and the brunette. The brunette says he's his kid sister. The blonde, as dazzling and silky as a moonlit California night, says she's his wife. And then there's Minsey, the maternal type. The only problem is that all three keep insisting that's he's Gordon Renton Friend III, drunken heir to a massive fortune.

Mark Liddon's debutante wife is in trouble, and he travels from Venezuela back home, then to Mexico, in the company of murderers, drug smugglers, gamblers and a variety of questionable people, to follow and save her. Is she worth it?  

Everyone knew Linda as a charming girl.. it was an image her husband worked hard to maintain.. beneath the surface Linda was a neurotic alcoholic.. then she vanished without trace and the net closes in as everyone points the finger at John.

Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system--star by star. There is Dietrich, there is Garbo...and there is Anny Rood of the Great Swooping Eyes and the Bone Structure--who for twenty years had held in her lily white palm the collective heart of America's film-watcher's. Anny, who has been able to get away with anything for all of her beautiful life....But who has finally gone too far. Because not even a "legend" can get away with murder.--Norma Delaney had 'slipped and fallen while descending the stairs, thereby breaking her neck' was the way the papers put it. But young Nickie Rood couldn’t help suspecting his mother, the Hollywood successor of Greta Garbo. After all, she was adored by Norma’s husband, who would almost certainly give her the leading role in his next big picture. Things look blacker still when the blackmailers move in; but after a dazzling series of shocks and surprises, all is put to rights in this sprightly comedy-crime.