Jane Wheel is making a career out of going through old stuff. What this saloon keepers' daughter loves, though, is not the items themselves but the stories they tell about the lives of their previous owners.

Whenever antique picker Jane Wheeler and her family get wrapped up in personal business, it's bound to be scary stuff.

Forced to sell her house and move her antique collection after her divorce is finalized, private investigator Jane Wheel relocates to her Illinois hometown, where she investigates a washed-up comedian's activities against a backdrop of a crewman's suspicious death.