Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P
across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher
addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the
flat. He leans out too far and falls, but a huge bread basket, sitting
outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a
vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies
the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger
Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.