Als es im persönlichen Umfeld der attraktiven Tina Grey immer wieder zu rätselhaften Mordfällen kommt, beginnt Richter Hardcastle, sich für die Dame zu interessieren. Auffällig ist, dass es sich bei den Toten ausnahmslos um lang gesuchte Personen aus der Unterwelt handelt. In Hardcastles Auftrag nimmt McCormick Kontakt zu der schönen Tina auf: Er lädt sie "zu sich" in Hardcastles Haus ein - und befindet sich wenig später in der Gewalt von Tinas Freund, dem Gangster Joe Beiber.
Hardcastle wants to investigate a woman named Tina Grey. It seems that a lot men die whom she was ""with"". When Hardcastle goes to the police for info, a Captain Filapiano, who doesn't like Hardcastle asks him to leave. Hardcastle then tells McCormick to get close to her. As they get closer, a gangster named Joe Beiber, whom she has been seeing, and who is insanely jealous abducts them. When Hardcastle goes to Filapiano to find out what's going, he discovers that she is The Black Widow, a former prostitute turned police informant. She works for Filapiano, and part of their arrangement is that in exchange for getting info on certain criminals, she frames someone close to the criminal she is working on, or someone who had access to the info she was going to get. Beiber was her latest target but her fall guy was killed by Beiber before she could get what she was suppose to. So Filapiano suggest that they use McCormick. Hardcastle saves McCormick and Tina's implicating Filapiano and Hardcas
Hardcastle vuole investigare su una donna, Tina Grey. Sembra che molti uomini che ha frequentato siano morti. Quando il giudice va alla polizia per recuperare informazioni, il capitano Filapiano, che non ama Hardcastle, gli chiede di lasciar perdere.
Hadcastle parla quindi con McCormick per cercare di starle addosso, ma un gangster, Joe Beiber, che ella frequentava, li sequestra.
Quando Hardcastle va da Filapiano per capire cosa succede, scopre che lei è la Vedova Nera, una prostituta che fa l'informatrice per la polizia e lavoro per Filapiano,
Le juge Hardcastle apprend que l'émeutier du New Jersey, Joe Beiber, essaie de prendre le contrôle des rackets ayant lieu sur la côte Ouest...