Jack is jailed for being drunk and hitting a cop. On release, he forks out his last cash to get his van out of the pound. He must get work although he is hobbling on a badly sprained ankle. Willing to take anything, he accepts a job in a card business doing repairs, and as a sleuth, as the owner says her husband is out to kill her. Jack must find out which of her workers is in her husband's pay and so prevent his client's murder. There's romance from an unlikely source, and danger as Jack finds out too much for his own good.

Part of the Jack of All Trades series.