When Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the strange happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground, he figures it's a straightforward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business. Then a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg: a dead girl, shot with slugs from her own shooting gallery. No killer can sidetrack Mike Torlin for long and get away with it - and when the final showdown comes, he is forced to stand his ground and face up to the killer ...