Everybody seems to be thrilled when a Hollywood screenwriter comes to Solitude to gather information that will result in a fictionalized film based on the crime solving successes of Fannie, Dana and Sharon. The stylish author's visit is cut short when she is found strangled off a popular bike trail on the river bank. The three amateur sleuths try to determine who had a reason to kill the outsider and why the murderer is trying to frame one of their own.