When private detective Johnny Marshall was asked by Jeremiah Peter Bundy to investigate Bundy's own death, all Marshall could do was laugh. -- But the laughing stopped when Marshall discovered that a certain Jeremiah Peter Bundy had in fact just been buried. The deceased had been a well-known diamond merchant with strong but secret ties to the underworld.

Then suddenly the living Mr. Bundy disappeared, along with a small fortune in diamonds, and Marshall realized that the joke might finally -- very finally -- be on him.