When second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin's artistic works triple in value following his apparent suicide off the Brooklyn Bridge, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. Enlisting the help of magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a seance held by MacGuffin's mistress, where Ernie's ghostly voice seems hauntingly real...

J. J. Murphy has been a lifelong Dorothy Parker fan and is the author of several Algonquin Round Table Mysteries, including Murder Your Darlings and You Might as Well Die.