Thurston Caswell — call him Skip — is a former Jeopardy! champ living off his family's fortune while writing ridiculous articles for tabloid websites. That is, until financial shenanigans lead to a suspicious death that puts his idle mind to work. When the police hesitate to investigate, he shoulders the task himself and soon discovers that he's living in a society that cheerfully exploits everyone and everything in it. Was there a murder? Maybe. Can he prove it?