When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.

被描述为一部发生在19世纪末的谋杀悬疑剧。

在鍍金時代，湯瑪斯愛迪生、艾德嘉德加和伊芙琳內斯比特在內的一群名流，齊聚在一位古怪而日漸衰敗的商業巨頭家中。當晚，這位巨頭被發現身亡，由此展開了一場以歷史小說為背景的謀殺懸疑故事。