Publisher's Synopsis
Philanthropist, Millicent Smythe-Durban retreated to the tower rooms of her West Austin mansion after a family tragedy. Tired of her self-imposed exile, she calls old friend, Emelia Winterjoy, with a heartfelt request: serve as her intermediary with detective Benjamin Kalico to solve a long, cold case, clear the Durban name, and free her from her self-imposed exile. Max Sheraton hires the Kalico Detective Agency to recover a stolen family heirloom, a Scottish chest or kist and its more valuable contents: a camera that may have belonged to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and one of the Cottingley fairy photographs. Miss Winterjoy and her circle are excited by the prospect of the hunt for a treasure chest, a hunt that will lead them from Austin's City-wide Garage sale to a vampire parlor, and into danger.Join Benjamin Kalicio and Miss Emelia Winterjoy for their third adventure as they strive to free a lady from her tower and to solve the mystery of The Stolen Kist.
