I got pissed off when I discovered the damage. The outside mirror of my parked new car had been knocked off. Disgruntled, I threw the broken part on the passenger seat, took a few pictures of the damage with my cell phone and drove to the nearest police station....

The setting is Canada, a fishing camp in the French Canadian section. Treadgold, ostensibly on vacation, has come on mysterious errand, which is concerned with some stamps in the possession of the village storekeeper. A haunted house – a succession of deaths – and a lovely girl further complicate a first rate tale....