When scheming millionaire Sigsbee Manderson's brains are blown out, the world lost nothing worth a single tear. Not one man mourned him. But one man is duty bound to find and arrest his killer. That man is Trent, successful artist, journalist and detective, renowned for his powers of deduction and able to see the significance of negligible facts. But even he could not foresee the importance of a woman sitting close to a sheer cliff edge, her eyes fixed on the smoke of a distant liner, and her face full of dreams...