Hard-up private detective Eddie Delaney was desperate for work, but when John Masters offered him a job and a $10,000 fee, Delaneywanted no part in the killing of Orson junior, son of the man who ran Teleda city. When Orson junior is killed, Delaney collects $10,000 for something he didn't do. When old man Orson hires him to track down his son's killer and find his long lost daughter, Delaney finds himself mixed up in a vicious crime syndicate and a blackmail scheme, before he finds the murderer and the daughter.