The assignment was posing for a fashion magazine in the cemeteries of Paris. Black was the new color so a handsome photographer and one of England's top models, Candida Jeans, flew to Paris where the entire trip became macabre. Customs discovered a severed hand in Candida's hatbox. This is only the first in a series of incidents that plunge Candida into a nightmare where she is forced to confront the indisputable evidence of murder.