You always hurt the one you love By day, she's a crime reporter for Fact Detective magazine; by night she performs in a Cleveland piano bar known as the Lion's Den. Day or night, Joan Kelly is always open for a new adventure, and her latest magazine assignment attracts more than her usual interest. What fascinates her about the Halloween eve slaying of Richard and Julie Monica is the evidence at the scene of the crime. A small-time composer, Richard was murdered at his piano, in the middle of writing a song. Joan discovers that there's something very wrong about that interrupted melody. The town's police insist they have their killer, Julie Monica's short-tempered ex-husband, who was known to be brooding about their divorce. Joan thinks that it's another open-and-shut case against a vengeful ex-spouse... until the authorities can't find the murder weapon. Aided by a composer's dying clue, Joan discovers a melody of murder... and the killer's plans for another deadly overture!