Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney, who also produced) is a nightclub bingo caller who loves American rock music, movie stars, and pulp novels. His career is stalled and his more successful brother William (Frank Finlay) married his former girlfriend Ellen (Billie Whitelaw). On a lark Ginley puts an advert in the paper on his 31st birthday, promoting his services as a private eye and before you can say be careful what you wish for, Eddie finds himself wrapped up in a mystery right out of the pulps that will take him from Liverpool to London…![]()
