Arnold Parker – almost eighty years old – with a dead wife who still talks to him, a son who thinks he’s a problem, and a daughter who regards him as a challenge.

Is he really a useless old write-off, fit only to moulder away his remaining years in a retirement home?

NOT IF HE CAN HELP IT!

Following an ex-colleague’s suspicious death, an unexpected job offer comes Arnold’s way. Then the discovery of a novel on blue paper sets him on a course to becoming a most unlikely detective.

Have past events led to present day murder?

Has a long ago love turned to hate?

Can Arnold – with the help of his dead wife -solve the mystery?

Or is he putting himself in danger by even trying?

By turns poignant, funny, unexpected and touching -this is a very out of the ordinary murder mystery.