When Shes Not Selling Seashells By The North Carolina Seashore From Her Shell Shop, Maureen Nash Is A Crime-solving Sleuth With A Ghost Pirate For A Supernatural Sidekick.maureen Is Still Getting Used To Life On Ocracoke Island, Learning How To Play The Shell Game Of Her Businessand Ghost Whispering With The Spirit Of Emrys Lloyd, The Eighteenth-century Welsh Pirate Who Haunts Her Shop, The Moon Shell. The Spectral Buccaneer Has Unburied A Treasure Hidden In The Shops Attic That Turns Out To Be Antique Shell Art Stolen From Maureens Late Husbands Family Years Ago.victor Shelly Sullivan And His Wife Lenrose Visit The Shop And Specifically Inquire About These Rare Items. Not Only Is It Suspicious That This Shell Collector Should Arrive Around The Time Maureen Found The Art, But Emrys Insists That Sullivans Wife Is An Imposter Because Lenrose Is Dead.