Returning from her honeymoon, Elizabeth Miles Bates is asked by her friend Anna Vanderslice to save her widowed mother from an unscrupulous medium. Having lost her son in the Spanish Flu Epidemic, Anna's mother has been attending séances to contact him—and she's paying lots of money to do it. In this fifth adventure (after City of Schemes), can Elizabeth outwit the crafty Madame Ophelia? Or will speaking to the dead have deadly consequences?