When Kinsey Millhone is asked by a friend to help a family obtain a military funeral for a pilot called Johnny Lee, she soon finds that there was nothing simple about Johnny Lee's life. Why do the airforce have no record of him? And why is his apartment burgled soon after his death?
Then there is the large key which is found. What is it for? What secrets will it unlock?

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Retold by John Escott.