Legendary food writer and bon vivant Horace Button, editor and publisher of "Sunshine Trails" magazine, travels by train to Tucson, where he's slated to co-chair the Best Chef Tucson Jail-and-Bail Weekend Gala with his beloved friend Bunny Lorillard, queen bee of Tucson society. When the weekend takes a macabre turn, Horace finds himself in a unique position to solve the crime he's convinced has occurred. Slinging insults, riding roughshod over perceived inferiors, and always keeping a stiff drink close at hand, Horace bulldozes Tucson's titled officials and culinary elites in his search for the truth.