It looks as if the boys might no longer need to fish off the end of the pier to feed themselves when Ollie spots a newspaper ad seeking heirs to the $3,000,000 estate of the late Ebenezer Laurel. Despite Stan being unaware of ANY relationship between him and the dead man, Olie decides to pass him off as one of the heirs but when the duo arrive for the reading of the will, they learn that Ebenezer was murdered and that Stan, along with all the other relatives, is a prime suspect.