He awoke with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the impending war that would engulf the world. Moreover, the city was being ravaged by a peculiar plague that caused madness and then spontaneous combustion of human beings. He himself was suspected of colluding with his wealthy client, Bianca Danielle, in the recent murder of her husband. Then he is charged with her murder, but has no recollection of his killing her. But then the clocks begin ticking backwards toward the hour of her brutal death.