Richard Fliegel's comic mystery takes PIs Shelly Lowenkopf and Homer Greely to a pricey but strange New Jersey clinic. Roberta Davenport hires the two to find her husband, Howard, who has exhausted their savings on self-improvement programs at the clinic and seems determined to stay indefinitely. Shelly checks in as a patient just in time to see Ray Singh, a staff statistician, mowed down by a driverless truck. When Shelly realizes his treatment--ostensibly to stop smoking--involves having several hundred volts of electricity run through him, he opts to continue his stay as an initiate of the Church of the Unflagging Eye: TV worshipers who run their training course at the clinic. Soon after, psychologist Henry Harrison, the admired but dictatorial director of the clinic, is dismembered with an ax--and Howard Davenport is the primary suspect. Shelly and Homer's sane presence keep the book on course while allowing for freshly odd moments.