When a private eye, out of his depth, gets framed for murder in the sleazy Barbary Coast of Carsonette City in Southern California and is, with the eager assistance of his estranged wife, doomed to spend his life in the loony bin, he asks his partner to call in another private eye, Johnny Liddell. This is the twenty-seventh book in the Johnny Liddell Mystery Series by Frank Kane (1912-1968).