Bought this for Devilweed because I enjoy the Webb Carrick mysteries set around the coasts of Scotland with the detective an officer in the FIsheries Service. Tis one involves three men missing presumed dead from a an abandoned boat. However, I have now read some of The Heir Hunters -- Dean Quinn, after service as an investigator with the Judge Advocate Corps in the Army has to drop out of law school (Columbia0 and move to California for his health; he lands in California dead broke, and is hired by large handsome woman who owns a motel to clean out a cottage whose tenant was an old man who died 2 years before. Quinn fins bank books indicating the old man had $100,000 (big money in the '40s) and arranges with an heir-hunting service to find an heir. So for, good practical investigation. The third stoiry is apparently a damsel in disress type -not my thing. ( )