To the relief of her new fiancé, Marjorie McClelland has hung up her sleuthing sign in favor of dress patterns and cake tiers. But murder has other plans, and when a young mother shows up on Marjorie's doorstep worried about her missing husband, Marjorie takes the case and drags along her favorite millionaire, the quick-witted and irresistible Creighton Ashcroft.

Finding the body of a dead woman at an address left behind in the missing husband's pocket has Marjorie suddenly more interested in motives than nosegays.