Emma Chizzit, Sixty-something owner of A-1 Salvage, is hired to help with plans to reserve the historic gold mining town of Buckeye, California. The savvy sleuth soon discovers that she's not welcome, as rattlesnakes in picnic baskets and threatening notes reveal. But the lucky Emmas is not fazed--until murder takes the spotlight. She must expose dirty town secrets before a rush of killing strikes the mother lode.