内容简介：
Meriwether Humperdinck-and yes, that's his real name-was a private detective who had never had an interesting case-that is until he met Igor Mortimer Blackhead-and yes, that's his real name, too. Of course, Meriwether didn't expect that his first real client would end up dead, having been the only person to see the body of billionaire Howard W. Lacey before it suddenly disappeared. Desperate to the solve the mystery and to prove to himself that he is the big private dick he thinks he is, Meriwether must eventually risk life and ego in order to track down a killer and to change his own personal existence forever. Filled with just the right dose of wit and wisdom and capacious amounts of comedy, Meriwether's story is sure to lead readers on an entertaining journey through the mind of an inexperienced detective, not only unsure of himself but of humankind in general-such that, his quest for his true identity as a genuine private eye is marked by many a mysterious encounter with a myriad of oddball eccentrics and with one fine and sassy lady.