Who would kill a nice college kid like Froggy Quale? He was the dig's onsite pollen and spore expert, shy and nearly invisible, but no one disliked him. And who left a perfectly good ticket to next year's Super Bowl on the back stairs of an old Scottish castle?

Dotsy Lamb, ancient history teacher from Virginia, and her best friend, Lettie, clash with law enforcement to reveal Froggy's killer and the villain who put the Death Cap mushrooms in the castle soup.