Mallory Marlowe, travel writer for the Good life magazine, heads to Colorado to visit a rich and famous high-school classmate, Carly Cassidy Berman. Carly had it all then and still does--until her corpse turns up in a mud bath. Mallory suddenly discovers that Aspen's main attraction is a dazzling array of suspects, one of whom is eager to see this accidental sleuth's travels come to an end.