Monica Walters, a compulsive reader of mysteries, gets her opportunity to be a super sleuth when a man is murdered at a peace conference. She wants to solve the case like her fictional heroines: Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, and Stephanie Plum. In her zeal to find the killer, she dresses like Dorothy at an Oz convention where she sees a flying monkey race and meets a coven of cavorting witches. The Albuquerque police detective chuckles at her snooping but realizes she's unearthed some pertinent clues. In addition to their mutual interest of catching a killer, they discover their love of the plays of William Shakespeare.