On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Ed Adams
Rosita Jean D'Ur
Leona
Belle Dorset
Tommy Ditman
Solly Wellman
Anstruder
Blacky Franchot
Pig
G. G. Temple
Paul Jean d'Ur
Howard
Hotspur Shaner
Bat
Minerva
Gribbe
Jerry Cavanaugh
Hazel
