Years after her death, Dorothy Parker's hanging out at the Algonquin, waiting for old friends to pass through. Luckily for her, everyone who's signed the Algonquin Hotel's guest book makes a way-stop at the bar immediately after death. Unluckily for her, they all quickly move on toward that blasted light. Her last hope is her old friend, Ted Shriver, a disgraced novelist now holing up at the Algonquin while he dies of a brain tumor. Norah is a young TV producer whose show is about to be canceled unless she can come up with a killer guest, and she's set her sights on Ted, too. Together, Norah and Dorothy become partners in crime, tracking down clues to Ted's plagiarism scandal, fending off thugs, having the guest book stolen, recovered, and re-stolen.