When a semi-professional baseball team visits Empty Creek, Arizona, the game hasn't even begun before somebody uses the owner's head for a baseball - and scores a deadly hit. A corpse before morning coffee is not Penelope Warren's usual style. But the ex-Marine proprietress of the mystery bookstore knows that the free-spirited denizens of Empty Creek are depending on her and Mycroft, her twenty-five-pound Abyssinian cat, to investigate.