A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat Chambers. On the trail of the killer, Mike discovers government conspiracies, and plots used by the CIA and the Mafia.

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.