The main characters in this story are Agnes Barton, a senior citizen and sometime private investigator, and her friend, Eleanor Mason. This is the third in the series.
The story starts when Sheriff Clem Peterson sends Agnes and Eleanor to Florida from Michigan, as he had promised. They are flying on a private plane, which has to make a fuel stop on the way. Unfortunately, during the fuel stop, armed men shoot the pilot. One of the other passengers takes over the controls, and flies them out of danger. While on the plane, Agnes finds an envelope stuffed with money.
They are met at the airport in Florida by Sheriff Clem Peterson's brother, another Sheriff Petersen, Calvin. He takes them to the Sunny Brooke Retirement Village, where they find out that while Clem Peterson had arranged for them to go to Florida and to stay at the Retirement Village, he was not paying for their stay as they had thought--they were supposed to work as the hired help to pay for their room and board.
While there they have to deal with an antagonistic Sheriff Calvin Peterson, overbearing agents of Homeland securtity who want to know about a package on the plane--which Agnes and Eleanor claim they know nothing about--and the discovery that 2 maids have already gone missing from the Retirement Village.
The plot is intriguing, but the book has several typos and grammatical errors that I found distracting.
In spite of these problems, I did find the plot interesting, and have read other books in the series. For the price, they are worth reading--although they would be better if the book had a better editor and proof-reader.
This book fulfills a requirement in A to Z Challenge. Title--the letter S.
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