A young woman dies of an apparent heart attack while visiting a bar. Quincy's autopsy reveals that it was a coronary, but there is no sign of heart disease. He wants to keep the body and keep looking for the root cause, but her husband wants the body back with no delay. Quincy suspects the husband of murder. (Of course he does!). As usual, Astin thinks that Quincy is overreacting and sends the body to the mortuary as the husband wished. But Quincy keeps digging, even without a body.
His suspicion is raised further when a young woman approaches Quincy and says that her sister, the first wife of the man he suspects, also died of a heart attack at age 25. She says that she always suspected foul play. Together they work to try and find what really happened, which is made more difficult when the husband has his second wife cremated and has her ashes spread at sea.
There is no weird angle or underlying social issue in this one. It's just Quincy taking what little he has to go on and solving a mystery. I always liked him in these straight-forward crime solving cases. The ironically named John Fink excels as the slimy husband/widower.
His suspicion is raised further when a young woman approaches Quincy and says that her sister, the first wife of the man he suspects, also died of a heart attack at age 25. She says that she always suspected foul play. Together they work to try and find what really happened, which is made more difficult when the husband has his second wife cremated and has her ashes spread at sea.
There is no weird angle or underlying social issue in this one. It's just Quincy taking what little he has to go on and solving a mystery. I always liked him in these straight-forward crime solving cases. The ironically named John Fink excels as the slimy husband/widower.