Garrett is a hardboiled detective living in the city of TunFaire, a melting pot of different races, cultures, religions, and species.

Garrett is hired by a beautiful young woman calling herself Jill Craight to find out who has broken into her apartment and why.

Immediately after, a Magister Peridont comes to Garrett to try to get him to investigate the disappearance of some famous religious relics (Magister is the title given to the extremely rare wizard officially sanctioned by the largest and most powerful religious denomination in Tunfaire); Garrett respectfully declines.

The story gets more complicated when Garrett visits crime lord Chodo Contague, whose house gets attacked by magical forces.

Eventually, Garrett and the Dead Man manage to tie together the church, the missing relics, the other Loghyr, and Jill Craight.