Three especially hardboiled detectives — Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick, and Pickle Inspector — find themselves locked in their respective offices and desperate to escape. Their attempts to get out drag them into the civil upheavals of four warring kingdoms: the Weasels, the Clowns, the Hogs, and the Elves. Meanwhile, the Mobster Kingpin is running schemes that touch all of it, and the detectives have to deal with him too.