The Detective

When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a political connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy’s psychopathic former roommate Felix Tesla (Tony Musante) and forces a confession out of him. Tesla is summarily convicted and executed and for his work on the case Leland gets a promotion. Afterwards, Norma MacIver (Jacqueline Bisset), the widow of a well-heeled account, comes to see Leland. Her husband was killed after falling off the grandstand at a racetrack, but Norma thinks he was pushed. She asks Leland to investigate her husband’s death. By reopening the case, Leland discovers that the police are opposed to him scratching around any further…