Bailey & Spencer are hired by a Washington attorney to protect his wife after a man on a plane trip suggests they swap murders.

Stu Bailey becomes involved after an ancient Russian tapestry donated to a Beverly Hills restaurant leads to multiple murder.

Trailing a fugitive to a small island off Hawaii, Jeff Spencer finds that his cover as a beachcomber gets him into trouble when the man and his girlfriend decide to kill Jeff and pass off his body as that of the fugitive.