Lawrence Sanders

Nora Buckley's worst nightmare has just come true. After years of being a devoted, dutiful housewife, she's found out her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Then her friends let her in on their delicious and dirty little secret. It's called The Channel, and it lets every woman unleash passions beyond her wildest dreams. Suddenly Nora is living out her most intimate and sensuous fantasies-and before long, she realizes she can have everything she ever wanted.

While investigating a crime passionnel among the rich in Florida, PI Archy McNally uncovers blackmail. It involves a passenger who did not perish in the Titanic, but escaped in a dress.

A case which starts out with a missing cat suddenly turns much more serious and deadly when a woman is found brutally murdered.