Max Monroe is trying to dodge three hit men ordered by dying mobster Bruno Petrell while attending a chess tournament and flirting with a renown lady champion.

Mobsters kidnap Lafontaine Smith, a key witness against them. Max had located Smith to testify against mobster Ray Dominick, only for him to be kidnapped by Dominick's thugs.

Injured Max copes with crutches while helping nurse Susi, a blind witness, identity the murderer of surgeon Dr. David Carver.

Sam Frank, a homeless clairvoyant, with a knack for predicting when crimes will occur, sends Max and Charlie on the trail of an odd collection of suspects.

Max finds a wounded girl in the trunk of a stolen Rolls-Royce and, after discovering that a bullet in the head has left her with amnesia, tries to help her recover her memory by re-tracing her recent activities.

While exchanging gunfire with a ring of counterfeiters, Max tries to keep a wounded Charlie conscious by recounting the details of a complicated homicide case.

While exchanging gunfire with a ring of counterfeiters, Max tries to keep a wounded Charlie conscious by recounting the details of a complicated homicide case.