Who poisoned billionaire playboy and notorious womanizer Theodore Van Brunt Ormsby? Liz Rooney, a feisty young woman with a passion for following sensational murder cases, believes the killer is one of Ormsby's many cast-off paramours. When the police arrest Ormsby's faithful old houseman, Judson, because he had the opportunity and was left a sizeable bequest in Ormsby's will, Liz is outraged and determined to do her own investigation to help Judson.