Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the Black Orchid, a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. Price soon finds herself elbow-deep in a story in which everyone seems to be either lying or keeping a secret to die for. When hours pass without word from the kidnapper, puzzlement grows as to his motive. But after a gruesome package arrives at Price's doorstep, the questions change: just what does this kidnapper want - and how many people is he willing to kill in order to get it?
