Nothing of interest ever happens in Little Merry, North Carolina. That is, until the town's queen of entertainment dies, and Abby James buys her antique Louis XV commode. The first night Abby takes possession of the commode, it's stolen. Joined by her sweet-obsessed English Mastiff, who she's named Baker, Abby is on the hunt to get back her Louis Abby knows "who done it," but she has to catch the thief in possession. The heat is on with midnight chases through cornfields, police standoffs with a monkey wrench, and an impromptu festival at an arrest.