A newspaper reporter (Robert Doyle) ends up broke in a different city where he meets a charming but also broke woman (Maxine Doyle). Through a series of adventures they get involved in hunting down the identity of a notorious murderer called The Eel, though the police think it is him as a man was shot with his gun that he had pawned. This is a typical reporter solves the crime that the police cannot, only this time Maxine Doyle brings some comic and romantic relief to a murder mystery.