Eve Dallas Has a Grisly Double Homicide to Solve When Two Young Lovers - Both Employees of the Same Prestigious Accounting Firm - Are Brutally Killed on the Same Night. It Doesn't Leave Eve a Lot of Leftover Time to Put Together a Baby Shower for Her Best-Friend Mavis, but That's Supposedly What Friends Are For. Now Mavis Needs Another Favour. Tandy Willowby, One of the Mothers-To-Be in Mavis's Birthing Class, Didn't Show Up for the Shower. Having Only Recently Arrived From London, Tandy Has Few Friends in New York, and No Family - and She Was Really Looking Forward to the Party. and When Eve Enters Tandy's Apartment and Finds a Gift for Mavis Wrapped and Ready on the Table - and a Packed Bag for the Hospital Still on the Floor Next to It She Realises Something is Wrong. Normally, Such a Case Would Be Turned Over to Missing Persons. but Mavis Asks for Eve's - and She Can't Say No. She'll Have to Track Tandy Down While Simultaneously Investigating the Deals and Double-Crosses Hidden In