Late one night, Mike Hammer finds himself in an all-night dive with a pretty, but washed-out, redhead When Feeney Last walks in and tries to smack the redhead around, Mike soon gives him a taste of his own medicine and gives the girl money to clean up her act and get a real job The next day she is found dead Although NYPD are viewing it as an accident, Mike knows better and sets out to prove murder and find the killer