When Pam & Jerry North go to see about making their wills, it seems to be merely a routine visit to a lawyer. But routine disappears when their lawyer, Forbes Ingraham, is found shot dead the following morning. He had been conferring with Matthew Halpern, a labor leader beset by a number of goons who were trying to pin a false rap on him. Reginald Webb, the sole remaining partner in the firm, is "advised" in less than polite terms to lay off Halpern as a client. Bill Weigand's investigation of the shooting involves two more associates of the firm, three ladies who work there, and a rather inscrutable one-time girl friend of Ingraham's. Murder and the Norths meet still once more before this dramatic case is tied up with a neat and clever surprise.