E.L. and Lionel's detective agency has its first client, a man willing to pay a huge sum to learn a woman's whereabouts.

Lionel is attracted to a beautiful woman client who claims someone is trying to murder her.

A stockbroker and friend of Lionel's hires the detectives to investigate two men who are having him make investments with negotiable bonds.

E.L. is smitten with Lola Marshall, a beautiful dancer who hires the partners to find her missing brother, a computer programmer who was used in a scheme to liquidate a tax evader's company against his will.

E.L. plans to get the agency's rent money from a gullible businessman, unaware his chosen target has crime connections.

A lounge singer comes to the partners for help against a crazed gangster.