Seven suicides in a row! Nice, average people, apparently with everything to live for, had gone home and resorted to gas, guns, and overdoses of barbituates. They had suddenly found death preferable to what? John Piper wondered. Piper, an insurance assessor, and his pal, Quinn, a crime reporter probed the backgrounds of the dead people, for Piper's company wanted to know why, all of a sudden, it had lost so many customers.