When Aunt Madge opens the door to her temporary apartment, she finds a woman with a knife in her chest. After all the times she has suggested Jolie mind her own business, Aunt Madge has a change of heart. It's Jolie's boyfriend, Scoobie, Madge asks to help her figure out who the murderer is. Murder's not all Madge and friends juggle. What will happen to the Alzheimer's patient whose husband wants to keep her in their apartment? Will Scoobie find information about Melvin, his ornery former professor, that will explain his odd behavior? And how will Madge and her good friend Lance avoid the acid-tongued Elmira Washington, who wants an apartment in their building? Madge misses her exuberant retrievers and husband Harry. He's busy burning muffins at the B&B instead of appraising houses with Jolie. Her dogged determination annoys Seargent Morehouse and worries her friends. But with the Christmas and Hanukkah seasons, there's good fun mixed with the murder.