The Plumber

In The Plumber, Lee W. Hickok, MD, an alcoholic urologist, is faced with case after case of patients for the skid-row of Galveston Texas who have had one or both kidneys removed by a surgeon who calls himself The Plumber. These victims are from the dregs of society and drug addiction. Suspects range from a local urologist to a mysterious Russian immigrant and his esoteric wife, to one of his own residency staff. Together with law enforcement he must solve the mystery and stop this butcher.