During the mid-1950's, Chief Detective Harvey Halloway was assigned to a murder investigation involving the murder of a man dressed in an expensive suit and found stabbed to death on a city sidewalk. A case that initially seemed to be pretty routine slowly grew in complexity, expanding to include local gangsters and the FBI. Though the head of the local syndicate was the prime suspect, evidence indicated things weren't as they seemed, and to further complicate matters, a dangerous and beautiful femme fatale working for the mob did her best to disrupt the investigation by using her wiles on the detective. Caught between rival gangs and dodging attempts upon their lives, Detective Halloway and his partner worked to solve the murders before they became victims themselves.