A woman hires Joe Mannix to find her missing brother, whom she says is an alcoholic living on skid row. Mannix locates the man, but finds that he is not the woman's brother -- although he is the target of several hoods who want to kill him. As he pursues the case, Mannix learns that the man may actually be an investigative journalist who was on the verge of breaking a major story when he disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
—aldanoli