Rookie detective Julie Bradford discovers that a murder scene evokes personal struggles that she must tackle to avoid interference in her sleuthing. Adrenaline is high in the race to unmask the elusive perpetrator before the trail goes cold. Though the scene provides some evidence, she relies on her new-found instincts to guide her.

Tom Mayor is a man in his mid-fifties who had done nothing with his life. Never had a steady job living off his parents, and he was a closet drunk. Then, as a joke, he told his mother that he had “the stuff” to be a private detective, like the “Thin Man”.
With the help of his mother, he gets his first case, and after some difficulties, he solves the murder of the next-door neighbor’s granddaughter. The case made him famous—and rich! The father of the murder victim gives him a million dollars. Life, for the first time in his miserable life, is good for Tom.
But now, someone is trying to kill him. Who? Why? To find out, Tom must become a P. I.—Again!