There is a dead body at the scene of the crime. The clothes identify him as the renowned professor of biochemisty. The police rule suicide, but the private local detective thinks otherwise. No one believes him. He finds a clue that is meaningful only to him. A beautiful girl asks for his help. She is the granddaughter of the dead professor. She is convinced that her grandfather was murdered, while working on a big scientific breakthrough. He had sent her his notebook in code weeks before his death. She asks for the detective to help her 1) protect the notebook and 2)find her grandfather’s killer and bring him to justice. He accepts the challenge.
Detective goes back to the scene of the crime. He looks at the dead body and finds evidence that it is not the professor who died, but a member of the mob. The detective is apprehended by the graveyard night guard, who charges him for trespassing. He is jailed for several days and released with a warning from the chief. When the detective is released, he discovers that his vault/ house had been ransacked and the precious notebook missing. Remembering the clue he got from the crime scene and from the dead body, he heads for the mob’s hangout. He disguises himself and infiltrates the bar. He notes a suspicious man talking about the night of the murder; he chases him through the back alleyway.
The detective catches up with the suspect, he reveals himself to have been at the scene of the crime. Him and his buddy were to kidnap the professor and retrieve his notebook, but the professor fired a shot to his buddy, so he fled. (The professor must have dressed the dead mobster with his own clothes to fake his own suicide). The suspect was afraid of retribution from his boss for failing on his mission, so he has been in hiding. The suspect procures a piece of fabric that he managed to grab from the professor before he fled the crime scene.
By analyzing the fabric, the detective visits the abandoned shack by the pier and eventually finds the professor.
The professor explained that the mob was after him. That he had tried to enlist the protection of the police, but found out that the police were either corrupt or incompetent. The professor killed the mobster in self-defense and dressed the dead man like himself and faked his own “suicide” to throw the scent off. He had been force to build a doomsday device for the mob, and all they needed was the activation code. He had temporarily escaped them. Half of the code was written in the notebook in code, the other half he had memorized.
But this was all a trap. The mob suspect wanted the detective to lead him to the professor. The criminal mastermind wants a bargain: the professor for the girl.
The detective goes to the meeting place. He puts down his gun. He had no intention of trading, but the professor couldn’t help see his granddaughter held hostage and revealed himself. The trade occurs and the hero is deprived of the sought item and person.
The doomsday device is activated, set to launch chemical poison into the main water system in two hours. The criminal mastermind picks up the detective’s gun. Now that the code is activated, the professor is no longer needed. The criminal mastermind shoots him dead. The mob leaves, the police arrive and the detective is wanted for murder of the professor. He flees with the girl.
Now the detective, labeled a criminal in his own city has to go into hiding with the girl. The two must complete the difficult task of ending the doomsday device and capturing the real criminals. The detective learns a new piece of information from the girl. The codes in the notebook is a children’s math game that her grandfather taught her, based on a Russian folktale song. She knows how to crack the code and deactivate the device. The problem is how to get close enough with the police surrounding the area. The final battle takes place: while the detective distracts the mob and police, the girl infiltrates to deactivate the machine. As the timer winds down, the task is completed at the last second. The detective wins recognition with the police force. The girl would like to continue to document her grandfather’s research.
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