Tim Stone hires the agency on behalf of his uncle, Jake Garfield, a former Depression era bootlegger who, after the end of Prohibition, was nonetheless convicted on such charges as tax evasion. Jake has just been released from prison and has been living like he still did in 1935 before his incarceration. Since his release, two attempts have been made on his life. Jake is certain the attempts were made by Lawrence Renaldi, a rival bootlegger in the 1930s and who now on the surface is a respectable businessman as a beer manufacturer. Jake is also certain that Renaldi was the person who, in 1935, killed Jake's wife, Rosemary Garfield in an accidental shooting in the Garfield's limousine believing the person in the car being Jake. As the attempts on Jake's life may thus be tied to Rosemary's murder, Tim wants the Angels and Bosley not only to provide bodyguard services for Jake in discovering who is trying now to kill him, but also find out who killed Rosemary. Beyond the general investigative services the agency will provide, Tim hand picks Kris to be the one to be Jake's bodyguard for reasons that will soon become abundantly clear to Kris. Jake only remembers what happened the night of Rosemary's murder up to a point before the story goes blank in his mind. Kris wants to help Jake remember what did happen that night, which may be made easier with certain players from that era beyond Renaldi still alive: Jake's longtime housekeeper, Elsa Himbeere, and the police detective who worked on the case at the time, now retired Gordon Sanders. But the more the events of that night come into focus, the more dangerous the job becomes for Kris, especially if the theory among those concerned is true: that Jake killed Rosemary.
—Huggo