When her best friend, Meat, narrowly escapes a hired gunman's bullet, supersleuth Herculeah Jones finds herself up to her neck in a mystery that may be her last. Herculeah knows that whoever marked her bumbling sidekick for a hit must have mistaken him for someone else--someone who could easily be identified by the cowboy hat Meat just happened to be wearing: someone like Meat's strange uncle Neiman.
With an investigative expertise inherited from her P.I. mom and policedetective dad, Herculeah is quick to pick up the trail of clues. But when Neiman, the intended victim, turns out to be a kidnapper, Herculeah is forced to take a wild ride to Death's Door--the bookstore Neiman owns that might be too aptly named. Because somewhere in the dark, waiting for Herculeah, is the very assassin they've been trying to elude. And this time, he's determined not to miss.