Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, and amid the debris an headlesscorpse is found. When Hamilton Dow, the beloved chorus leader is missing, the peace and quiet of an illustrious university are disturbed. Are the corpse and the missing conducter one and the same? Has the hall, with its passages and catwalks been used to hatch a murder plot? The local police get nowhere, and it takes Homer Kelly, visiting professor and retired policeman, to unravel the tangled plot in this elegant and funny mystery.