The two old ladies had lived there together for so long that even their friends found it difficult to tell them apart. One thing was certain, however: one of them was dead (murdered? ) and the other had disappeared. To unravel the tangles for herself and her Under Wilbie, young Lucy Culpepper decided to find her old Aunt Fennel -- was she the one who vanished, or was she the one who died? -- and as if the floodgates of evil were suddenly opened, Lucy discovered that someone urgently wanted her dead....