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.
Flint is sent in search of a gang of robbers who have stolen the wagon train money and deeds to land in California.
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.
