 Margo Bentley s about her experiences hobnobbing with powerful people worldwide just might be a best-seller. Concerned about advance publicity, she advises her agent that she ll continue working in a hotel, under an alias. Hours later, she s dead, apparently of liver cirrhosis. Unmoved by Quincy s objections, Asten releases the body to a funeral home that quickly cremates it. Then Quincy finds a strange microorganism in her blood - something he s never seen before. One of Margo s friends gives Quincy the New York telephone number of her literary agent, but Quincy finds that avenue closed - by the days earlier death of that agent, apparently from liver cirrhosis...