For Catt Russell, weird is the new normal. So, when she accidentally blunders into someone else's dream, involving an apparition that seems to have stepped out of a film noir script, no one is surprised – least of all her. Meanwhile Catt finds herself volunteering at a time-line re-enactment at the local art and history museum, where her society-snob sister Micky is curating a commemorative exhibit of artist Toussainte Tortisse, who mysteriously disappeared at the height of his popularity in the 1950s. Joined by her dysfunctional brother, Art, a wannabe private detective who claims the specter is his client, and his circus side-show family, Catt and her best friend, Jilly, become entangled in perhaps the most wildly improbable mystery of her unchosen career, involving a dubious cast of memorable characters, including 'George Washington' and two Roman centurions. You know what Sherlock Holmes had to say about the improbable...