It's August of 1925 and Owen Sound is locked in the grip of a relentless heatwave. The arrival of the Chautauqua-the annual travelling extravaganza of music, lectures, dance and even a psychic-is imminent. Detective D.B. Murphy receives a pre-dawn telephone call from his friend High Constable "Oddball" Scott, who is at the scene of a ritualistic killing in a downtown alley. With nothing better to do, D.B. takes the case, but soon finds his hands full as the Chautauqua's mysterious Count Luke Von Blankstein and his hulking henchman Adair, as well as a local ring of shoplifters, put Owen Sound's number one detective through his paces.
