"Heartbreak Hospital" is one of the most popular TV soap operas, an endless saga of life and death, love and hatred: to many of its fans, the characters seem much more real than the actors who play them. The character everyone loves to hate is Andrea Harmon, the soap's classic Bitch, played by Sunday Tyler -- a ruthless, demanding, manipulative actress who has alienated everyone connected with the show. The only person who has seen Sunday's softer side is Bill Troy of the New York Police Department Movie/TV Unit, who is inevitably drawn into the case when Sunday is murdered, and no one has a satisfactory alibi.

Henry Slesar wrote more than 500 short stories and novels and probably holds the record for having written more scripts for national television than any other writer. He has also written a number of mystery novels and collections of mystery stories. Henry Slesar died in April, 2002.