Quincy helps an out of town medical examiner deal with a pair of political scandals involving the death of children of influential persons by tainted drugs and the unsafe condition at a mill which is the main economic force in the town.
In a small industrial town, an award winning medical examiner is pressured to refrain from doing a thorough job and to falsify reports... especially after asking Quincy to help him determine whether the industrial plant is poisoning the town!—Frank Wetmore II