It's the 1920s and David Flynn, newspaperman and former soldier has left New York for Little Egypt to write a follow-up story about the Herrin Massacre.  He finds much more than he bargained for, however.  Someone is murdering young women in Little Egypt and, what's more, people are flocking to see medium Julian Devereux's shows where he supposedly speaks to the dead.  Flynn picks Julian out for a phony, but perhaps he's not one hundred percent right about that.  Julian's visions of death are eerily on the mark and Flynn is surprised to discover he's attracted to the vulnerable psychic.  But a relationship between two men in New York isn't easy, never mind in small-town Illinois.  And that's before Flynn takes into account the killer lurking in their midst...