The Prince of Prescott: The Case of the Missing Guest

Sergeant Anya Jones of the Prescott, Arizona Police Department has her hands full, again. This Saturday morning in late February, she is finishing a difficult domestic violence report while trying to understand what it is exactly that the ninety-three-year-old Miss Madeline sitting in front of her is asking, when her latest recruit bursts into her office informing her of a crime in progress. Bikers are terrorizing shoppers at Gateway Mall. Then comes a call about a missing person from the Hassayampa Hotel.

Added to that is the Mayor’s insistence on sweeping the town clean, in spite of the snow and continued snow forecast, and ridding the streets of the noisy motorcycles that are terrifying the residents in order to ready the town for his ‘Big Event’ on the upcoming Friday. The ‘Big Event’ is a secret. Not even his Acting Chief of Police, Max Steele, knows what’s up.

Then there is Miss Madeline, one of the two surviving Forty-Fives, (three were killed; two murders and one suicide) the prior October. Miss Madeline has her own personal problems which she expects Sergeant Jones solve for her.

Events escalate. The bikers multiply and are considered a menace. A rookie detective half-listens to his superiors and the missing person stays missing. Miss Madeline, on the other hand, discovers what she considers to be a treasure.