Richard Jury, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, suspects there is a connection between three separate women found dead on his turf, but has to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico to prove his theory.

Scotland Yard detective Richard Jury is called from the bedside of his comatose lover Lu Aguilar to investigate the murder of a beautiful young woman found shot to death behind the Black Cat pub in the village of Chesham, and he becomes embroiled in local police politics as the case expands with similar killings in London.