Asey thought the Douglasses' behavior a bit suspicious when their imposing houseguest, writer and educator Carolyn Barton Boone, couldn't be found. Then Asey, in the company of Doc Cummings, happened to find her corpse over at Pochet Point in an antique Pullman railroad car, a punched green ticket in her hand. It was only when this singular cadaver abrubtly vanished that things really began to get complicated, not to say downright threatening.