Detective Paul Drake helps a magazine publisher locate an heiress. But when the publisher is cut out of a deal and a con man is poisoned, the heiress is charged with murder.
Perry takes his first trip backstage in a New York theater when his client is charged with homicide.
A range war threatens to erupt when the daughter of a cattle baron falls in love with the son of her father's archrival.
After her first husband is murdered, a woman remarries and hopes for a brighter future for her daughter. But her second husband--a tough bandit--leads them down a dangerous path.
Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her ultimate admirer.