For some death is just a living...When Ron Crusher is forced at gunpoint onto the parapet of a twelve-story office block he suspects that he's being used to distract the police while a criminal gang escapes and that his life will be spared. Minutes later he is sent plunging to his death without ever knowing why. Meanwhile Sam Carew ex-cop turned builder and private detective is hired to discover whether cruise ship crooner Joey Gladstone is cheating on his wife. Departing for Barbados where the Caribbean Rose is docked little does Sam know that he will soon be drawn into the investigation of Ron Crusher's apparently motiveless murder.