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Help! My Gumshoe's an Idiot! (2018) on Netflix

NR20181h 35mComedy

Biff Basham is a private eye in New Orleans and not a good one. A nightclub singer pays him to settle a blackmail demand, and her husband is murdered.

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Plot summary

The nightclub singer's problem is a blackmailer who wants money from her, and she brings it to Biff Basham, a private detective in New Orleans who is hopeless at his job. She wants Basham to pay the blackmailer, and he accepts the job, thinking his money worries are over. Then the singer's husband is murdered, and the case leads him into espionage and organized crime in the seedy underbelly of the city. Enemies are on all sides of him and he is completely out of his depth. He has to work out whom he can trust and identify the killer, or he will become the next victim.

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