A wild whirl for Doc Stoeger who edits a paper and indulges a passion for chess, Lewis Carroll and ardent spirits, when he witnesses a band robbery, the unloosing of a lunatic, a brush with a killer mob, and is involved with an Alice in Wonderland afficianado in a haunted house while two corpses are planted in his car compartment. A fancy fling which has some plain answers, this Valpurgisnacht features a virtuoso performance by Stoeger and is ingenious.