Plot Summary:Unable to solve his last case, famed private detective Lance O'Leary is showing signs of being on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As such, he is admitted to the private Thatcher Institute to recuperate. Beyond the inability to rest and relax as he is ordered, O'Leary doesn't totally mind being there as it allows him to spend time with the head nurse, Sara Keate, with who he is in an on-again/off-again relationship, those switches largely pressed by her. Besides O'Leary's butler Seymour Bentley being a known ex-con, there is much going on at the Institute of intrigue: the only other patient is is elderly and wealthy Institute benefactor Frank Warren, who head doctor Arthur Lethany convinced to go through a $100,000 medical radium treatment for his ailment; Dr. Balman, who once had money but is now broke, is incensed by the treatment as he feels it is both unnecessary for Warren and would better serve a multitude of other patients who would truly benefit from it; Lethany's wife, Carol...