The billionaire creator of a financial news empire wants to be elected Mayor of Philadelphia. He looks like a shoe-in until the man who runs his stock market music department is murdered. What follows is a manic romp that sucks in the world's wackiest detective (who now bills himself a freelance intellectual), a financial poet praying for the big break, a head hunter prone to extreme sexual expressiveness, a Philadelphia lawyer who will take anyone as a client, a homicide detective seeking true love, a municipal repair crew run amok, and a parrot with a tendency to become offensive...