New OCR formatted proofed v15 Insurance companies dont like it when someone puts a match to a house theyve insured to the hilt and in the process burns to death a couple who carry doubleindemnity policies Investigator Milo March sets out to discover who torched the Santa Monica beach house with its owners inside and who paid them Did the philandering husband hire a notorious gangster to do the dirty work and trick a Skid Row bum to stand in for himself as the victim Three other suspects are an elegant blonde a steamy redhead and a shapely young Japanese woman any of whom Milo might bed or bustor bothin the course of this fastpaced actionpacked whodunit