Raymond Hunt

Tommy Callahan, fêtard invétéré et perpétuellement fauché, finit, au bout de sept années, par obtenir son diplôme... et un boulot peinard chez Callahan Pièces Auto. Lorsqu'il rentre chez lui, une autre bonne nouvelle attend Tommy : son père va épouser un véritable "canon" et Tommy aura enfin le demi-frère dont il a toujours rêvé.

Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.

The death of a factory owner signals a change for all of the staff, none more so than a sheet metal worker called Watson, who is denied a promised promotion and finds his position as the unofficial leader of the sheet metal workers challenged by Gregg, a new apprentice who joins the factory and isn't willing to follow the accepted order.