Private eye Mike Haller turns his collar up against the damp of San Francisco's fog and smells trouble coming in like the stink of fish off the bay. He's looking for a newsman who took a quick trip north to the Sacramento Valley and never came home. A tearful, boozy wife wants her husband found, but somebody's put out a "cease and desist" order ... a .38 with Haller's name and address on it.

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