Mable Manden, the wealthy matriarch of the Manden family, is dead. Now her relatives, a group of misfits and idiots, are in a mad dash to the death for all her money. Can the unorthodox detective Nemo Smithfield solve the mystery before the entire Manden clan winds up dead?

Hannah Dowd is on her way to marry her fiancé, but is interrupted by a lone traveler, Darrell Sanders, who is on the run from "the agency".