Irene Ingram has written for her father's newspaper, the Progress Herald, ever since she could grasp a pencil. Now she's editor in chief, which doesn't sit well with the men in the newsroom. But proving her journalistic bona fides is the least of Irene's worries when crime reporter Moe Bauer, on the heels of a hot tip, turns up dead at the foot of his cellar stairs, after investigating the case of local hardware store owner receiving terrifying messages. Tenacious Irene senses there's more to the story, which she is all but certain led to Moe's murder.