"Even with a psycho there's a point of contact in the killings," Sheriff Jack Tragg told Deputies Fayde and Counter as they went to investigate the third apparently unconnected murder in which the same gun had been used. "Find it and at least you'll have his motive." Yet there seemed no point of contact between the victims – and old moonshiner, a visiting theatrical producer and the bust-out man of a crooked floating crap game. So the deputies searched and at last found the point of contact. But finding it gave them the name of another possible victim ... Woman Deputy Alice Fayde herself!