While in New York visiting Grady, Jessica runs into an old student, Elizabeth Gordon, who has become the fiancée of Lila Lee cosmetics tycoon Norman Amberson. Strangely, Elizabeth seems distracted and unwilling to discuss her life. When she turns up dead in her room, the apparent victim of a robbery, Jessica resolves to bring her student's killer to justice.
The shady world of cosmetics gets a look in and it's suitably colourful and dramatic with some fine performances from Robert Culp. Grady is his usual clever self and is out for an accounting job for the company. There's a revealing look at the cosmetics world in the 80's - how Jessica nabs the killer is good.