 Maxwell Beckett worked for Scotland Yard as a researcher. Today is an author of mystery novels living in San Francisco. Somehow everyone believes that he was an Inspector, so that s what they call him. And it seems that he has been going through a slump. It seems that his books don t have the same spark that they had before. While he struggles to regain his form, Nikki Page a reporter, who is assigned to do mundane jobs, would like to be taken seriously. So, whenever there s a mystery, she turns to Max to help in solving it, thinking it would make a good story. Max thinks Nikki s a nuisance, but hoping that their snooping around would be good material for his next novel goes along.