In his latest case, James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice. She’s suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. However, the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark and sinister past, dating back to the American Eugenics programs from the 1930s.