When Norman de Ratour discovers the body of Heinrich von Grðmh in a car outside his beloved Museum of Man, he knows he faces a sticky public relations mess. What he doesn't know yet is that the gun used to kill the honorary curator is his own Smith & Wesson revolver. Implicated, publicly embarrassed and with his life's work in danger, Norman becomes the prime person of interest on the list of unusual suspects. The third in the Norman de Ratour murder mysteries sustains the genre originally invented by Poe while twisting and bending it into new forms.