A respected doctor at a school for emotionally disturbed children is murdered during the theft of $150,000 in bearer bonds that were to be a donation to the school. Joe Mannix is hired by an insurance company to try to recover the bonds. In the process, he meets one of the doctor's former patients, a nine-year old girl named Dana who lives partly in a fantasy world involving Peter Pan and Wendy. As Mannix gets to know the little girl, however, he begins to suspect that her talk of "pirates" and "bombs" might mean she knows something important about the person who killed the doctor to steal the bonds.
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