When Maggie Murphy is left a widow at twenty-four by her husband's motorcycle accident, Maggie gets a part time job at her cousins weekly newspaper till his one columnist sobers up, comes back, or gets out of jail. The job turns into full time when she finds the columnist's body behind the office's dumpster. When a detective and a handsome policeman named Joe Driver come to investigate, Maggie asks him to help her find out more about her husband's motorcyle accident too. Both cases heat up along with the relationship between Maggie and Joe and with the dubious aid of Evil Elvira, a former slave who claims to be over a hundred years old; a co-worker named Fatima AKA Queen Esther Johnson; and Maggie's Aunt Myrtle who keeps a sharp eye on Maggie's social life. It's a merry southern romp with love, laughs, and danger as the Memphis PD,friends, and the FBI all try to find out 'who-all-done-what?"