Word Babock, joy buzzer manufacturer and closet intellectual, wants to hire private investigator Kaiser Lupowitz to assist him with a would be blackmailer. Word explains the situation to Kaiser. It seems that six months prior, Word, craving the sort of intellectual stimulation that his wife can't provide, employed a service that would send young college girls to engage him in literary discussion. Unknown to Word, the service taped these conversations. Flossie, the madam of the service, is now demanding that Word pay her ten thousand dollars in exchange for not revealing everything to his wife. Hearing all this, Kaiser decides to take the case.
Kaiser contacts Flossie to arrange a discussion for himself, and after a short cram session using a Monarch College Outline on Melville, finds himself in the company of.....
