What a contretemps! Young Jeff Darrell, ace reporter for the Morning Call, is the best investigative reporter in town, but now that the world-famous Marvin Feldock has joined the rag, all of Jeff's work must be published in Feldock's name. And to add to the insult, the notorious murderer, the Blond Beast of Bremen, is rumored to be in town, and everyone knows that Jeff flubbed his last best chance to capture the Beast. When Napoleon Foy the local Chinese laundryman gets involved you know you're in for a wild, thickly-plotted odyssey through Chicago, the London of the West-an odyssey that only Harry Stephen Keeler could have written.