young martin dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store in the course of his restless young manhood he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top accompanied by two sisters one a dreamlike shadow the other a worldly business partner as the eponymous martins vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality madness and ambition art and industry a sense of doom builds piecebyhypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an american dreamer reaches its bittersweet conclusion jimmy rachel and richard take a vacation aboard a cruise ship but little do they know that the patriarch of the wealthy hatamoto family is about to be murdered with the perpetrator still aboard ship can you figure out whodunit before conan does