To her delighted surprise, suburban sleuth Betty Trenka finds herself ensconced in a luxurious New York City hotel&3151;preparing to investigate the wealthy, ruthless ocmputer entrepreneur Gerald Toth for her country neighbor, Ted Kelso. An expert tester of software programs, Ted has been offered a suspiciously large sum to approve Toth's top secret new brainchild.

But a murder on a foggy Connecticut beach ups the ante-espeically when an unmarked computer disk is found at the crime scene. Suddenly Betty and her newfound friend, the elegant Lady Margaret Priam, are surfing the social scene for a cunning killer-and playing real-life computer games where death is only a mouse click away...