Dennis Mallory, alias Jim Ritchie, an inquiring photographer, comes to Bay City- another anonymous vicespot- where he attempts to get a line on his former wife and her present lover, is relieved of fifteen grand, and assumes Anna Jordan's search for a missing brother. A murder he did not commit compromises him with the police as well as a local crime czar, but he gets his clearance with the exposure of a narcotics ring.... High octane, low I.Q.