When the sheriff asks for her help investigating a bizarre series of anonymous letters alleging the wrongful murder conviction of a recently deceased man, Advocate owner Emma Lord is alarmed by the letter-writer's threats that more deaths will follow if the truth is not revealed.

When an unpopular local is found murdered in a new rehabilitation facility, reporter and soon-to-be-bride Emma Lord teams up with her friends to identify the culprit and receives the shock of her life when she is framed for the killing.

In the middle of his funeral, the widow of an octogenarian hysterically insists that he was murdered, and Emma Lord, publisher of The Alpine Advocate, who is already investigating a threatening letter received by the town's beautiful blonde judge, now suspects she has two hot stories to unravel.

Shocked by the arrival of a guest who claims to be her son, Judith McMonigle Flynn accepts the young man's help investigating a murder on the premises only to discover that he has designs on the inn.