A client named Foster hires Cordelia to trace a young man he claims is out to kidnap his nephew. Against Edith's advice Cordelia shadows the lad but loses him at a flat where she discovers the body of young artist Dave Crawford. Though warned by the police to back off Cordelia traces Crawford's ex-girlfriend and through her gets to Lee,the man she was hired to follow and who is not the criminal she was told he was. Ultimately Cordelia finds that she has stumbled upon a plot involving stolen paintings and their forgery - the link with Dave Crawford - and finds herself ...