The Anglo-Italian private eye Tommaso Ronald Hogget is a private detective who excels at finding missing things and missing people - sometimes when they're dead. Sometimes You Could Die, revolves around the fate of Jane Donner - society beauty, philanthropist and patron of the arts - who was kidnapped whilst in northern Italy and even though a million dollar ransom was paid, the beautiful Mrs Donner has been killed and decapitated. Now super-rich businessman Martin Donner wants revenge on his wife's murderers, but first he has to find them....or rather Ron Hogget does.