Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our protagonist Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street...Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private investigator, he intends to get to the bottom of this mess...