Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband's illegitimate children. Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering...

When "Joey Ballistic," who knows how to make an illegal buck, is in trouble again, his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore, determines to free him by getting his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder; she hires Amos Walker to investigate the old crime.