Despite their colorful past, Lucille is invited by Mayor Terrance Bradley to a special charity ball - Chadsworth's largest annual fund-raising event. Her Shih Tzu, Vanilla, will be there too. Rubbing shoulders with the town's elite, Lucille is convinced that the night has been a raging success...until the mayor's new assistant and organizer of the esteemed event, Edna Folsakee, faints right there at the dinner table. When paramedics arrive, to everyone's horror, the woman is pronounced DEAD at the scene. With shocking gossip relentlessly creeping it's way through the grapevine, Lucille digs deeper into Edna's death and is stunned by what she uncovers. Did Edna Folsakee really die of natural causes? Or was she murdered at the gala ball?