Jake Merlin is a full-time doctor, part-time amateur magician, and an all-around sleuth. So when he discovers the body of his long-lost roommate being dissected in the gross anatomy lab, he is determined to find out how his friend disappeared, and what really happened to him. With the help of a beautiful, gutsy district attorney, Jake follows a trail of deception and greed through the teeming streets of Pittsburgh, only to discover that someone has been taking the phrase donating your body to science to a new extreme Now, with only his medical skill and magician's luck, Jake must stop the killing before he ends up on a slab himself… (more)