[Richard Sherlock Mysteries 02] • The Reluctant Dick - The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader

Alyssa Walworth is young, polished, wealthy, and drop dead gorgeous; and Jake Dombrowski couldn't be more in love with her. So in love, that she has him going every-which-way in her quest to have the Beverly Hills wedding of the year.

Gideon and Conrad, Jake's best friends from childhood, see the wedding as nothing more than Jake's first step toward divorce. They try to convince him in the usual manner: Take him out, get him drunk, and pound it into his head that Alyssa, is bad news. But Jake won't listen, he's in love.

The night of the bachelor party, there is no other choice. Gideon and Conrad kidnap Jake, chain him to a radiator in the apartment of adult film star, Jailbait Jordan, and go to work convincing Jake that marrying Alyssa, the woman of his dreams, will quickly turn into a nightmare.

The day of the wedding, Jake escapes, makes it to the church on time, and definetely makes it the wedding of the year, but not in the manner Alyssa had planned.

WHUPPED is a funny, sardonic, R-rated, romantic comedy in reverse. It examines lust, love, the limits of friendship, what we want out of life, and what we are willing to give up to get it.