Leopold Larson is back practicing law again, and the Oregon State Bar is not happy about it. This time he is sober, doing probate law, and getting his slips signed at a little storefront place that isn't listed in the regular directory of AA groups. It is tough AA where nobody holds hands, nobody hugs and nobody promises to love you until you can love yourself. Into Leo's office walks Daisy Twill, the beautiful, buxom, hot dog vendor who could be an heiress or a killer or both. The search for Daisy's inheritance and her father, the Duke of Morrison Street, leads Leo to the earliest days of AA in Portland, to an offshoot of Alcoholics Anonymous offering a lot more than sobriety, and into a showdown with the most powerful law firm in the city. To survive the case and keep his license he will need all his legal skills, a little luck, and a helping hand from a ragtag bunch of inner city alcoholics.