(Some Spoilers) Popular Hollywood song writer Keith Vincent, Edward Ashley, is found dead with a bullet at his head at his luxury home in the Hollywood Hills. Checking out the scene the police come to the conclusion that Vincent killed himself after the forensics results come in showing powder burns on both his hand and head and no sign of a struggle but LAPD Det. Warner, George Raft, has other ideas about Vincent's death; he was murdered. It's apparent that Vincent was murdered when a piece of music he was composing was found on his piano unfinished. The piece was dedicated to some woman called Dolores. The fact that Vincent was, according to his live-in maid and houseboy, very upbeat the day he was found dead convinced Det. Warner that his death wasn't a suicide.
On the wall of Vincent's living-room there's a number of large photos of women who were in one way or another involved with Vincent and checking out who they are Warner finds out that Vincent had a habit of calling any woman that he knew Dolores! There was also a photo that was missing and that may have been that of the person who murdered Keith Vincent.
Going through the nightlife scene of post WWII L.A Det. Warner tracks down the killer who murdered Kieth Vincent but only after he gets his head broken and his ribs bruised. Warner also falls in love with the #1 suspect in Vincent murder the woman who's photo was mysterious missing from Vincent's living-room wall Frances Ransom, Lynn Bari. Det. Warner connects Vincent with both Frances' younger sister Carol Page, Virgina Huston, and the piano player at the nightclub "The Keyboard", where Carol is a singer and the star attraction, Ned "Fingers" Ford,Joseph Pevney, the club's pianist.
Det. Warner finds both Carol and "Fingers" very uncomfortable when he asks them about Vincent's unfinished piece of music and later "Finger's" admits to him that he in fact was a collaborator in a number of Vincent's songs. As Det. Warner gets closer to the truth about Vincent's death, or murder his life becomes endangered when he's attacked by one of the bouncer's or muscle-men Eric Torp, Ben Hoffman,who works at "The Keyboard" nightclub ending up in the hospital.
The photographer Charles Shawn, John Banner,who took the pictures of the Vincent women panics and tries to get in touch with Warner about the truth of why he was murdered and who did it. When Warner gets to his studio he finds Shawn dead hanging from the sky window apparently murdered but made to look, like with Vincent, as if he killed himself.
Going back to the "Keyboard" nightclub to get some more information out of both Carol and "Fingers, as well as Caorl's sister Frances, Det. Warner is confronted again by the large and brutish Torp. This time Det. Warner puts Torp away with a hot pot of coffee thrown in his face and a steel pipe smashed over his head. A color change threw Det. Warner off to who was responsible for Vincent's murder and with a new photo that Det. Warner uncovered at the Shawn Studio he now knows who's behind Vincent's death and even more why.
On the wall of Vincent's living-room there's a number of large photos of women who were in one way or another involved with Vincent and checking out who they are Warner finds out that Vincent had a habit of calling any woman that he knew Dolores! There was also a photo that was missing and that may have been that of the person who murdered Keith Vincent.
Going through the nightlife scene of post WWII L.A Det. Warner tracks down the killer who murdered Kieth Vincent but only after he gets his head broken and his ribs bruised. Warner also falls in love with the #1 suspect in Vincent murder the woman who's photo was mysterious missing from Vincent's living-room wall Frances Ransom, Lynn Bari. Det. Warner connects Vincent with both Frances' younger sister Carol Page, Virgina Huston, and the piano player at the nightclub "The Keyboard", where Carol is a singer and the star attraction, Ned "Fingers" Ford,Joseph Pevney, the club's pianist.
Det. Warner finds both Carol and "Fingers" very uncomfortable when he asks them about Vincent's unfinished piece of music and later "Finger's" admits to him that he in fact was a collaborator in a number of Vincent's songs. As Det. Warner gets closer to the truth about Vincent's death, or murder his life becomes endangered when he's attacked by one of the bouncer's or muscle-men Eric Torp, Ben Hoffman,who works at "The Keyboard" nightclub ending up in the hospital.
The photographer Charles Shawn, John Banner,who took the pictures of the Vincent women panics and tries to get in touch with Warner about the truth of why he was murdered and who did it. When Warner gets to his studio he finds Shawn dead hanging from the sky window apparently murdered but made to look, like with Vincent, as if he killed himself.
Going back to the "Keyboard" nightclub to get some more information out of both Carol and "Fingers, as well as Caorl's sister Frances, Det. Warner is confronted again by the large and brutish Torp. This time Det. Warner puts Torp away with a hot pot of coffee thrown in his face and a steel pipe smashed over his head. A color change threw Det. Warner off to who was responsible for Vincent's murder and with a new photo that Det. Warner uncovered at the Shawn Studio he now knows who's behind Vincent's death and even more why.