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It's the "Roaring '20s," nevertheless, you wouldn't know the period was roaring if you resided in southeastern New Mexico. Aside from the casual "flicker" at the neighborhood motion-picture palace, it could as well be 1883 as 1923. When young Annabelle Blue's eccentric aunt Minnie begins complaining about spirits in her home, poor Annabelle is delivered to Minnie's isolated ranch house to aunt-sit. She's not happy about any of it. She's even less happy when she sees a deceased body beside her aunt's chicken house and a mysterious grave in the garden of Minnie's only close neighbor, the sullen and scarred Olin Burgess. And why is Mr. Burgess, who avoids people on standard principle, suddenly lurking about spying on her behalf? With the reluctant help of her best pal Phil Gunderson, Annabelle models out to resolve the unknown. While they're at it, maybe they can also discover what took place to little Julia Gilbert, who disappeared off the face of the planet earth several years earlier.... If Annabelle and Phil don't vanish themselves, that is.