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Alyssa Walworth is young, polished, wealthy, and drop dead gorgeous; and Jake Dombrowski couldn't be more in love. So in love, she's got him going every-which-way in her quest to have the perfect Beverly Hills wedding. Jake's best friends, Gideon and Conrad, see the wedding as nothing more than the first step toward divorce. They try to convince Jake in the usual manner, getting him drunk and pounding the reality into him, but Jake won't listen; he's too much in love. Stronger methods are needed, so the two friends kidnap Jake on the night of his bachelor party, and leave him chained to the radiator in the apartment of adult film star, Jailbait Jordan. There, they do all in their power to convince Jake that Alyssa, the woman of his dreams, will be nothing less than a nightmare. The day of the wedding, Jake escapes, makes it to the church on time, and definitely makes it the wedding of the year, but not in the manner Alyssa had planned.

A despicable stock trader is found buried under an avalanche of his own garden rocks, causing fired-from-the force- Richard Sherlock to be yanked off the bowling alley and whisked to the crime scene by his pampered protegee Tiffany Richmond. He must prove murder and stop payment of the twelve-million-dollar Richmond Insurance policy. Nothing makes sense. Crime scene is a mess. There is no money trail. There are too many motives from too many suspects who have too many alibis. Worst of all Sherlock's bad back is acting up, his ex-wife wants more money and the murder investigation is putting a serious dent in his parenting schedule of his two daughters. Richard Sherlock hates his job, and may be a reluctant dick, but he is better at finding the WHO in WHODUNIT than anyone else.