A valued representative of Kauffman Real Estate and Auctioneering vanishes, and then $100,000 is take from the company safe. When old Friedrich Kauffman begins receiving threatening notes, skewered by antique hatpins, his anxious daughter Elsa turns to computer-whiz P.I. Patricia Delaney for help. But Delaney's tell-all computer databases and personal snooping quickly uncover more than the respectable Kauffmans wish to reveal, including shady business practices, bitter sibling rivalries--and murder....