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The owner of the mystery bookstore Haven't Got a Clue has been spending more time solving whodunits than reading them.\n\nTricia's sister Angelica considers herself the next celebrity chef, and hosts a launch party for her first cookbook — attended only by an oversized cutout of herself. Worse than the missing fans is a nearby gas explosion that injures her boyfriend Bob Kelly, head of the Chamber of Commerce, and kills the owner of the town's history bookstore. 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