When Thomas Robel, insurance investigator of Pratt Pratt Wally and Pratt, receives a visit from the Director of Claims for the Fidelity Insurance Corporation he thinks he has struck gold - especially when a fat cheque for a retainer is handed over. But that's where simple profit ends and hard work begins as Robel sets about answering the first question: Who has been swindling The Fairfax Corporation out of policy monies? An enjoyable page turning comedy thriller involving a greenhorn insurance investigator, out of his depth and living on his nerves. Trouble Cross is a rollicking parody in the Ian Fleming mode that will keep you guessing to the end with many a comic moment fired from Robel's inexhaustible store of one-liners along the way.