During a regional news broadcast on YA Channel, the announcer, Lance Temple, suddenly shocked all his listeners by saying that he was dying and that it was murder. Sure enough, Temple was found slumped over the controls with a knife in his back. When it becomes obvious that the staff at Broadcasting House were all lying about their movements, amateur sleuth The Reverend Jabal Jarrett, vicar of the parish of St. Bernard's, Auckland, helps in the investigation.
