Jack Peril is the beloved hero of radio, comics, and the silver-screen, but is his existence merely fictional? What does a series of grisly murders by the Yellow Menace, who models his murders after comic books, and Roderick Loom's lecture series condemning the pulse-pounding parables of said Mr. Peril have to do with it all? And just who is The Yellow Menace, anyway? That's just what aspiring private investigator Mitch Pistolwhip, along with the mysterious Charlie Minks, inquisitive hotel maid Isla Rose and flatfoot Ray Ford (the luckless cop), plans to find out.