1930's. Depression was more than a mental problem .Nothing was guaranteed except more hard times .Life was a daily fight for survival . Too often it boiled over and ended badly . Then it fell to a P.I like Bass Holt to find out why . When a beautiful widow is on the hook for a dead, older husband, he gets his first "big one " to solve . What seems to start as a routine "whodunit," soon sees the bodies pile up and with his other cases, get him knee deep in problems he never would have imagined With humor, a cat named Thug, and the beautiful secretaryWanda, he takes on all that's thrown his way .Who could ask for more ?