Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert, mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally

改编自詹姆斯·M·凯恩的小說《Love's Lovely Counterfeit》，一个城市商人在爱上新当选市长的未婚妻时，卷入了有组织犯罪、腐败的城市政治和贪污。