Wilberforce Kemp is a private detective. He's not especially good at it, and he has a drink-chugging demon to keep fed, but he's a private detective all the same and that means when a beautiful red-head comes into his decaying office and pays him to dig up a missing boyfriend, it's his job to find the guy... even if he kinda wants the red-head all to himself. In a case that will bring him elbow-to-elbow with all the low-lives he's been drinking to avoid, Wil Kemp is up to his neck in trouble all over again.

This pastiche of the hard-boiled detective trope brings romance and sarcasm a-plenty.