P.I. Stanley Bentworth spends his days staking out cheating spouses and chasing down bail jumpers and his evenings drinking Jack and pursuing women with a pulse.

When he helps a lovely young prostitute discourage an obsessive stalker, he finds himself fixated on the hooker and immersed in a complicated murder case. That’s not unusual, except that this time Stan is not only trying to solve the crime, he is the number one suspect.

The homicide detective tells Stan in no uncertain terms: Stay out of our way or else.

Stan can take a passive back seat on a bar stool and risk serious prison time. Or he can plunge in to save himself and get busted for impeding the official investigation. Either way he loses.