Springfield-1940's To some it might seem like a quiet, easy going southwest Missouri town, but Private Investigator Max Black knows better. When a female is found dead in the river, Max and Pat, the Chief of Detectives at the City PD, team up to investigate. Then Max is hired by two men, who claim to be brothers, to find their missing sister. He suspects she could be the murder victim, but his suspicions run even deeper when he finds out the men aren't who they say they are. Max is pushed to his limit when his girlfriend Shelly's life is threatened by the two goons. Mayhem breaks out when he...

World War II is almost over, but crime never rests and Max Black is back in action Max is called, by his friend and chief of police detectives Pat, to an alley where a former client has been brutally murdered. It's clear the crime was committed by a man named Striker and is related to the mysterious notebook stolen from Springfield's crime boss Russo. Shelly, Max's secretary/girlfriend works diligently in the office to gather as much helpful information as she can for the investigation. She finds out Russo knows if the notebook gets into the hands of the law, he and many of his counter parts...

It is the 1950's with one war over and another beginning. Max Black's friend Cary ends up dead, shot execution style, which puts Max on the trail of his killer. Max searches Cary's apartment for a clue before his friend Pat arrives and finds a map drawn on a tomato sauce label. The map is the key to Cary's killer but what does it mean? With the help of Shelly his secretary, and Fisk his main informant, Max slowly puts the puzzle together one piece at a time and discovers clues involving stolen diamonds worth over five million dollars and the city's mob boss Lombardo's casino revenue. The...