It is New Year's Eve at the Colony Club in San Fransisco. The Saint (Sanders) spies an assassin shooting a gangster from behind a potted plant. Wendy Barrie leaves in a hurry, but Sanders intercepts her outside the club. She is on the police's watch list. Her father had been kicked out of the police department on the charge that had been kicked out of the Waldeman gang. The NYPD sends Jonathan Hale to help with the investigation, since he is the greatest living expert on The Saint. Sanders visits him in his apartment even while he is packing to leave. They fly together in a sleeper plane to San Fransisco. However, Sanders slips away from him at one of the stopover spots. He goes to see Barrie immediately. Neil Hamilton is at her house as a close friend. They tell him that her father was framed by Waldeman. He tells them that she inherited his bad associations and tendencies. She tells him that he will not live long.
Hale finally shows up at Sanders' apartment. Willie Best is "Algernon," Sanders' butler. Sanders finds poison in their breakfast milk. He tells the police commissioner that he and Hale will break up the gang. He calls the Colony Club to see who the murdered man was sitting next to. It was Gilbert Emery, a philanthropist and arts patron. Sanders enlists the help of the inimitable Barry Fitzgerald, a local shady character named Zipper Dyson. They break into the safe at Emery's house, but another figure comes in at the same time and fires shots. He sends Fitzgerald to go to Barrie's gang and claim that the Saint beat him up. The bills that Sanders stole prove that Emery is a front for the Waldman gang. He slips into Barrie's house and tells her that Jerome Cowan is headed that way to try to find out what she knows.
The Saint finally reveals that Hamilton is Waldeman.
Barrie
Hale
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