Crazy Aunt Charlotte is missing again. Blair Rhyme, Rose Arbor's young librarian, doesn't bother to check Charlotte's regular haunts -- the Veteran's of Foreign Wars lodge, the Four H-Club, or the bins behind Milton's Fish shop - because Charlotte is dead. Blair discovered her body amongst the boxes of what-nots and whatevers in the library's basement. Unfortunately, when she returns to the library with the police Charlotte is missing. Again. Desperate...