Best of Trades finds two amateur private investigators on the case of a missing heirloom from a very powerful son of a once thriving oil family in Houston: Walter Doyle. Miles, being a straight-laced, by the book P.I., is resistant to his partner Jakoby, who is a reckless ex-con with a more seasoned approach to the business. While his methods are unconventional, they prove to compliment Miles, as they are thrust into a criminal underbelly that none of them can see coming.