Former topless tabloid titillation Jacqui Jordan suffers an explosively fatal accident in her garden shed one morning. How, then, could she be up and about later that day, having a conversation with an impeccable witness in Crooked Lane?

The witness, Kathleen Gilmore, is recuperating at the house of a good friend Vincent Rees, after the amputation of her leg. Normally bedridden, Kathleen has made her first trip outdoors on the evening of the mystery. Has she seen a ghost, or an out-of-body manifestation perhaps?

Jonathan Creek succeeds in throwing some light on the problem, with more than a little help from his fan club...