Private detective Bart Andersen had to keep an eye on Nancy Hamel, the wife of a wealthy writer, because her husband did not completely trust her. However, the matter turned out to be not so trivial. Bart soon found out that Nancy was connected with the robber and murderer Poffery, who had been wanted by the police for a long time. And then he decides to blackmail and demands payment from Nancy for silence - one hundred thousand dollars. But everything is not happening at all as Bart expected...

The book was also published as: “Can of Worms”