It's the Pandemic, the film industry is on unwelcome hiatus, and Hollywood's brightest star, Mandy Troy, is receiving death threats and compromising photos out of her past. Sherlock's former Marine Corps Sergeant is Mandy's bodyguard and lover.

Suspecting blackmail is imminent, he brings Sherlock Jones and the WDGA "Disreputables" (Wednesday Drunken Golfer's Association) on to the case. But one of Sherlock's prime suspects, the Producer of the porno films that Mandy made when she was a struggling actress, turns up murdered. Now Mandy and the Sergeant are a new set of prime suspects. This second of the Sherlock Jones novels drags the reader down into the dark and dirty depths of the move world of plague-stricken Los Angeles in 2021.