Someone is terrorizing the elderly and vandalizing their homes in a certain neighborhood in Spookie. As usual, Abigail Sutton, a freelance artist, and her boyfriend, Frank Lester, a retired homicide detective, are called in to help find out who's doing these awful acts. The two seem to have an uncanny knack for unraveling mysteries and getting to the bottom of such strange happenings.

Some of the old people think it's ghosts in their basements, in their homes, doing these destructive deeds; but Frank doesn't believe in ghosts while Abigail isn't so sure. Then the old folks begin to disappear one by one or die suspiciously. Frank thinks there's a sinister plan behind the crimes and is determined to uncover who or what is responsible. In the end they, with a little help from their eccentric old friend, Myrtle, must solve the mystery, or more of the old ones in town might end up dead.

This is the sequel to Scraps of Paper, book one of the Spookie Town Murder Mystery series, and All Things Slip Away, book two of the Spookie Town Murder Mystery series.