Maria Sanders was wealthy, exquisitely dressed, expensively groomed and beautiful. When her jazz musician husband begins to receive threatening letters her doting father employs the Banks Detective Agency to discover their author. Almost before he can begin his investigation the agency's star . . . and only . . . operative, Alan Chance, is drawn into a murder enquiry and a tangled web of lies and half-truths that involves him in crooked book-keeping and international smuggling.

Set against the authentic background of a Southeast Asia not often seen by the tourist, Singapore Swing is a fast paced mystery thriller that will keep the reader guessing until the very end.