When a house near Lee and Joe's home goes up for sale, the couple teams up with Lee's aunt and uncle, Nettie and Hogan, to buy it and resell it for a sweet profit. But after the owners of the house, the Baileys, accept their offer, a local developer, Richard "Spud" Dirk, suddenly swoops in with a higher one, and it seems their dreams might be snatched away. But in this 17th adventure (after The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha), when a long-hidden gun is found behind a pipe in the Baileys' basement, Lee begins to suspect a mystery is afoot. And when Spud turns up dead a few days later, it becomes clear there's something rotten at the foundation of this house.