Mickey Allerton has a problem. The best dancer at his night club has deserted him, and he wants her back. Amateur sleuth Fran Varady follows Lisa's trail to Oxford and stumbles on a floating corpse. When she meets Lisa she realises there's more to her disappearance than Mickey let on, and decides to help her. But Fran's got herself mixed up in a something dangerous, and if she doesn't want to end up in a watery grave, she'd better watch her back...