Paradise Island, the brightest spot of all the playgrounds that edged the Gulf of Mexico, catered to those who could afford to pay well for their entertainment. Twelve miles from the mainland, it had, in the few years of its existence, come to be known for its sports, its gaming tables, and its Peacock Club - where the idle wishes of its many guests became in almost an instant an accomplished fact.For some time the Federal authorities has suspected a connection between the island the increased activities in the drug traffic along the east coast, but when Major Jack Raymond and Andrew Dillingham were sent to investigate, they encountered in the person of lovely Eva Shale, whose wealth came from an unknown source, an enigma of the first order.A tropical storm, so common to the locale, which swept the island, brought with it a murder which fastened its suspicious fingers upon every resident of the Peacock Club...