THIS IS ONE OF GRAFTONS MOST FUN-TO-READ BOOKS. . . . One of [Kinsey Millhones] wildest adventures yet.
--San Francisco Examiner
When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts her lovable octogenarian landlord she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do she thinks is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead mans house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up she quickly realizes he was not all he seemed. Before long Kinsey is trailing crooks halfway across the country impersonating a hotel maid tangling with a baseball bat-wielding grandmother and running from one very dangerous character. With her money almost gone and her nerves frayed Kinseys got to solve a decades-old crime and make it back home in time for Henrys wedding . . . if she can make it back at all. . . .