When Lee Baron returns to his hometown in Florida to take over his dad's private detective business, his very first client turns out to be an old flame, Ivor Hendrix. She's got husband troubles and wants Lee to act as go-between. But when Lee visits the trailer where they lived together, he finds a dead body instead.

In fact, all the clues point to a tie-in between the corpse and the recent Laketown robbery where the thieves got away with $400,000 in cash. The cops quickly start leaning on him for information, but with a client to protect, a head to keep from being bashed in, a nympho sister to keep at arm's length, and a few wild ideas of his own, Lee's first case just may be his last.