The first in a new series features Kiki, a fourteen-year-old redhead who makes dinner for her doctor mother, writes for the school newspaper, plays tennis, and still finds time to solve mysteries with help from her cat, Pumpkin.

In the local art museum to interview its curator, Kiki Collier overhears a violent argument in the next room, and, after some careful sleuthing with her cat, Pumpkin, she uncovers an art theft ring