"Raised in a small town bourgeois family and recently graduated from college in humanities, Edgar Delacroix has yet to discover what the big city has in store for him. After a fortuitous entry in the world of private investigation, he has to deal with twisted and suspicious individuals, solve sinister mysteries and risk his life in rather unpleasant circumstances. Both a financial and industrial metropolis, a center of vice and alcohol smuggling, Montreal in the twenties has all the assets to cater to the needs of criminals with any amount of imagination. The seamiest intrigues will be Edgar’s daily bread and cold sweat his squalid, bitter butter."