Pima Gallagher, a detective for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Scout Walker, his young stepdaughter, are surrounded by mystery and murder in Arizona during the last half of the 1890s.

Follow their adventures as they work together and sometimes at cross-purposes to solve these assorted crimes and deal with the perpetrators.

Arthur Parker is an out-of-work journalist who needs a job badly. He finds a dream job, or so he thinks, working as a writing coach for a teenage girl who lives in a huge Victorian mansion with her elderly and very wealthy grandfather. Art soon finds that dealing with Miss Mary Ann Markham isn’t the piece of cake he thought it would be as dead bodies keep cropping up all around them and make them persona non grata to the local sheriff and the police.

Zelanie Zephora Zook, known to her friends and relatives as Three-Zee, has an unusual talent. She can see and talk with ghosts. Only a select few people know about this talent, and it’s questionable how many of them believe her. With her cat, Snickers, who also apparently has the talent, and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, who eventually acquires it, she gets involved with recently dead people who didn’t always die of natural causes.