Former police officer Johnny Slagle now worked as a private detective—more precisely, as a gofer for the film studio “Consolidated Pictures.” And if irresponsible boys and girls from “Consolidated Pictures” got their pants dirty, he was required to advise them how to behave next.
One night, an actor who was famous but aging—an alcoholic and gambler, Steve Millet—called him. He asked Johnny Slagle to come to his ranch at once: “I think I’ve killed someone. But I can’t tell you over the phone.”