Private investigator Lew Harper does not have many friends and has an appointment to sign his divorce papers. One of his friends, mild-mannered Albert Graves,, is one of several attorneys of multi-millionaire Ralph Sampson, who is described as crazy, alcoholic and egotistical. Sampson disappeared after flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Sampson is married to the physically disabled but hard-boiled Elaine Sampson. She doesn't like her husband and believes he is off with another woman, which she doesn’t mind, she says she has no intention of divorcing him, she would like to know exactly who he is with but mostly she just wants to be sure her husband is not off squandering his fortune.