We were walking along the beach in Del Mar, studying the geology of the cliffs. My oceanography instructor was helping me plan a murder.
Oceanographers call all small animals critters.
They're found almost exclusively in the submarine canyons here, and they're voracious. Put a dead fish in a tank with them, and they'll strip it to the bone. They'd start on the soft tissues. Thus was born, The Dead Man and the Sea . As a reporter, Margo takes a professional interest in the dead man found floating in the ocean off La Jolla Cove, whom she saw being brought into shore.