1940s Wichita, Kansas Dwayne Wheeler, a slightly felonious private detective, plies his trade in the city's sub-culture of bookmakers, bootleggers and hookers. When he is hired to solve the murder of a local bookie and dear friend, the case is quickly linked to the arrival of a Kansas City mobster on the scene. Sensing a takeover of local bookmaking and criminal activity in the works, Dwayne's investigation leads...