"Times are changing in Pickax, making for newsworthy notes for the 'Qwill Pen.' A new senior center is in the works and a production of CATS is set to delight the residents. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, leaving Qwill without a companion. The late Nathan Ledfield's mansion is being converted into a museum and his treasures are being sold to benefit needy children. The town is abuzz with excitement until a death from a bee sting leaves everyone but...

Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places--on the head of a young visitor whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, leaving Qwill with his work cut out for him.