Linnea Kent is a former homicide detective who turned in her badge for a private detective license. She and her doting husband Parker, a former professional boxer, run the Pine & Merrimac Detective Agency. Typically, they investigate infidelity, insurance fraud, and similar cases – that is until Linnea takes a more complicated case that reveals a seedier side to their otherwise charming town.

The double-sized Archie’s Halloween Spectacular opens with a story by Ian Flynn and Bill Galvan that has appearances by Archie Comics’ supernatural, sci-fi, and superhero characters. When Medusa Doom tries to take over Halloween at Eyegore Estate, Cosmo the Mighty Martian and Fly Girl from the Crusaders step in to help.