Before there were supermalls, before there were hordes stampeding for Black Friday bargains, there was...The Church of the Regeneration's Annual Fall Rummage Sale September 1960. Kennedy and Nixon race for the presidency, and the Women of the Church of the Regeneration prepare as usual for the annual rummage sale under the imperious direction of their leader, the light-fingered Charlotte Crowley....Until she is found in the basement smothered by a bag of coats still wrapped in plastic from the drycleaners. Though the police initially rule the death an accident, Lucy Way, an older, not-quite-maiden lady with a mystical bent, has her doubts.