Benjamin Perkins's family has owned the Where's There's Soap boutique and the lot it's on for years - or so they thought. Earnest Joy, the jeweler next door, is claiming he won the land from Benjamin's grandfather in a long-ago poker game. And he's ready to collect immediately. While this dirty laundry is hung up for a very public viewing, Benjamin goes to visit Earnest and finds him dead - a bar of the family's homemade soap clutched in his hand. As the automatic prime suspect, Benjamin is perhaps the only one who can clear his name - and keep the rest of his life from going down the drain...