Private detective Tree Callister is in big trouble.For starters, a towering, baseball bat-wielding woman appears to be intent on killing him.Then the beautiful wife of a disgraced media mogul hires Tree because she believes her husband is trying to murder her. In fact, she may be trying to murder him. Added to that, Tree's son Chris unexpectedly appears, accompanied by his alluring wife, chased by a couple of thugs who want half a million dollars. Then there are the dead bodies that keep showing up every time Tree turns around. Not to mention the police who charge him with being an accomplice to one murder, and accuse him of committing another.And we won't even talk about what happens when Tree encounters a couple of hungry alligators.