1933 Madeline Munro, a beautiful heiress haunted by her own personal demons, has vanished. When private eye Lazarus Flynn is hired to locate the missing heiress, he enters the unfamiliar world of trust funds, exclusive clubs and manicured estates. Beneath the patina of respectability and privilege, however, Flynn discovers a web of sexual tension, deceit and betrayal involving an unscrupulous psychiatrist, a brutal ex-con, a seductive divorcee, a teenager bent on vengeance and the unsolved murder of a kindly spinster. As he unravels the many threads of Mrs. Munro's life, Flynn realizes she is in mortal danger and mounts a hazardous rescue mission with the help of a surprising partner.