Lady Luck Smiles Only Once is a tale of adventure, intrigue and danger set in 1937 in Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay). Toward the end of the Great Depression, times are hard and money is scarce. The hero Gumshoe Laurence Speke is as down on his luck as anyone else--worse, if you consider that someone just shot up his office and nearly killed a dame in the process. And someone or something is sinking ships in broad daylight in Lake Superior. Speke is hired by a shipping lines owner to find out who: a real job, for real money. If he lives to collect his paycheque.....