Brogan, track announcer at the Surfside Meadows training center, plays amateur sleuth when unpopular racing writer Woody Creston is found smothered with a souvenir horse blanket. Creston was a drug pusher and blackmailer who kept files of juicy information on potential victims--Brogan included. Following a hunch that might link another jockey, Vance, to the killer, Brogan finds Vance's stabbed body in an alley. Sportscaster Rog Korpelsen invites the suspects to a special edition of his show Sports Squawk, on the pretext of talking horses with them, but poses tricky questions on the air in order to divert attention from the real slayer.--