Why anyone would steal Pepper Larson's photographs, entered in the "Picture the City" contest, is a mystery to her and her best friend, Amanda Hart. And they can't understand what there is about the pictures that would make the thieves trash the Spectator's darkroom and break into Pepper's house. But Amanda knows one thing for They've got to get to Mick. They need to find out what's going on-and before someone gets them out of the pictuer, permanently.