Edgar Rolfe is a private detective who only wants to enjoy his potstickers. The problem is his clients keep getting in the way. A woman comes into his favorite restaurant and asks if he can kill her husband. He refuses, but decides to find out why she'd want him to do commit an act of murder.

The first in the Edgar Rolfe series. A series of short stories set in the fictional town of Brixton, New Jersey in the year 1978.