A baffling message scrawled in lipstickon a mutilated prostitute frustratesDetective Pete Swisher. Complicatingthe investigation, Chief of DetectivesTom Hardesty keeps a roll of moneyfound in the victims clothes. Bothhave been skimming drug money butSwisher balks at robbing stiffs. Matterscome to a head when the same messageis left on another mutilated prostitute.CIA officer, Bill Williams getsconcerned when his daughter, Judith, isinnocently involved with her brilliantmath professor. Treading forbiddencivilian territory, Bill unravels the truthabout her teacher, but is turned asideby Tom Hardesty as just another kook.Swisher realizes if Williams is right hehas evidence that will shake up theacademic world.