The war's getting long, and L.A.'s sleuth to the stars Toby Peters is getting twenty-five dollars a day plus expenses. His job: convincing a vainglorious gun moll and a semi-retired gangster to leave Fred Astaire alone. Luna Martin, a blond beauty with the grace of an armadillo, wants to dance, and Forbes wants the most famous feet in America to teach her. Fred Astaire wants Toby to get Forbes and the rather loose Luna off his back…and every other part of his anatomy.

It's a case choreographed for trouble and murder. Soon Toby will find himself hoofing it onstage with Betty Garble and Rita Hayworth—in front of several thousand spectators—as he desperately tries to unmask a fast-stepping killer and prevent Astaire from trading in his tap shoes for cement galoshes.