Several Deaths Later

The popular game show Celebrity Circle is something of a graveyard for show-biz mediocrities, so Tobin, the five-foot-five movie critic with the fiery hair and the equally fiery temper, is less than thrilled to accept a guest stint as the show films a week's worth of broadcasts aboard an ocean liner. But Tobin's career has hit the skids since he solved his TV partner's murder (Murder on the Aisle); money is money, and besides, he gets a free cruise in the bargain.But someone on board has more in mind than fabulous prizes, and Ken Norris, the smarmy emcee of Celebrity Circle, turns up with a knife in his back. The Captain blames Cindy McBain, the young secretary from Kansas City in whose room the victim's body was discovered. Although Tobin finds her wearing nothing but a robe covered in Norris' blood, he thinks she is innocent, if less than pure--and he swears his belief has nothing to do with her incredible body or her enthusiastically expressed affection for celebrities.