Somewhere in San Francisco, a kid of 16 was mugging a woman old enough to be his grandmother, a junkie was waving a gun at the clerk in a tiny neighborhood grocery, and a rising young executive who hadn't risen fast enough was quietly making his company several hundred thousand dollars poorer. The mugger and the junkie would end up on the police blotter. The young executive would wind up across a desk from me because CEOs prefer not to admit to the stockholders that they've been taken by their employees.So goes the life of a private investigator who specializes in uncovering corporate fraud. When Catherine Sayler's lover Peter Harman is framed for the murder of a gorgeous blonde secretary, Catherine plunges into the case, determined to find the real killer. She soon finds that corporate grime and greed sometimes make for a deadly mix.