In the fall of 1879 San Francisco swelters under a heat wave while Barbara Hewitt a reserved school-teacher uncovers a mystery with the help of her son?s dog the Boston Terrier Dandy.
This short story which comes chronologically after Maids of Misfortune is set in the 19th century gas-lit world of Annie Fuller and her O?Farrell Street boarding house which Locke writes about in her USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.
