Johnny Edwards is fishing when he gets Tonyâs letter from Cuba. Tony is in trouble and urgently needs Johnny down in Havana. But Johnny stallsâashamed to admit to his former war buddy that he has been living a life of indifferent ease and indulgenceâand when he does arrive, he finds Tony has just been murdered. His boredom replaced with thoughts of revenge, Johnny decides to try and find the murderer himself. And thatâs when he runs into Ellen McCarterâtrim, slim, with sun-streaked hairâa helluva distraction. But not enough to sidetrack Johnny, who continues to follow the murdererâs trail up to Fort Myers, Florida...where the first person he runs into is slim, trim Ellen!