Malcolm MacGregor is a friend and former professor of Jenny McNair's. Having loved her throughout her twenty-year marriage which recently ended, he is now ready to divulge his true feelings to her. It is challenging, because he is rather slow at making advances, but now he is distracted by a case with which he is assisting Jenny's father, PI Charlie McNair. Or perhaps it is his blossoming relationship with Jenny that distracts him from saving the wealthy and charming Edward Sharkey.