In this third instalment of the series that features the brave, perhaps foolhardy, but definitely likable bartender Brian McNulty, Christmas festivities are marred by murder. Brian's buddy sets his eye on one of the luscious waitresses at work. But when it turns out, she's married to a cop with a mean temper, an unnecessary distraction turns to murder. Next their nasty boss is killed, and it falls to Brian to solve the murder before he ends up behind bars in more ways than one.