High minded Sheriff Parker Lucas and glitzy screen star Sylvia Shoreham spark it up in Reno under the noses of Dimmy Spiro, the big-shot head of Phoenix Pictures in Hollywood, and Tony Rico, a Nevada nightclub boss. All is love and happiness until Sylvia Shoreham's ex-husband and sister turn up dead. This is a zany soap opera of a novel that contains some of Cain's best caricatures of Hollywood types.