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 ?