Private eye, Dick Maxim begrudgingly takes a cheating husband case from the sultry, long-legged beauty, Elizabeth Tully, the wife of a bank president.

But then, three days later, he's standing on the bridge that crosses the Ala Wai Canal in Honolulu, Hawaii and watching his client's half-submerged body slowly riding the gentle waves, up and down on the small swells as the water pushes her lifeless form up against the rocky bank, her long, black hair floating across her back.

He tries to remember what had happened after she slapped him, but the bourbon he had consumed before their confrontation had its way and he had slipped off into a deep sleep.

Maxim knows he needs to get off the island, but little does he realize his trouble has just begun.