Murder by Medication

Dante Alvarado is a lawyer working for a large drug company. He has recently transferred to Dallas, Texas, and is disturbed when watching football on TV at Thanksgiving by one of the company scientists arriving at his door. The scientist, Doctor Snow, is wearing a surgical boot on his left foot and explains that he was cleaning his gun at home and shot himself in the foot. He is developing a new drug internally named '24x7' and his wife is taking it. This is in violation of company policy and his wife has gone missing after an argument. He is concerned that the drug may have had something to do with her disappearance and Dante is the Federal Drug Administration expert for the company. Any bad publicity about the drug will kill its future market and the company has a lot of vested reasons to prevent that from happening.