Carmel, California, antiques dealer Molly Doyle has an unerring eye for the rare and valuable - which is why she's been hired to assess and sell the contents of the home of the late parents of insufferable local heiress Frances O'Brien. The well-known Hollywood set designers had crammed their domicile with all manner of priceless antiquities and worthless junk. But the last thing Molly expects to find is a mummified corpse.