America's "gay Indian Jones" is back. Sent to authenticate Roman antiquities at an English country estate, Kydon Schmidt assumes his task is tame stuff after spying for OSS and MI-6. But his post-war assignment soon turns to murder. In addition to the ruins of a 12th- century abbey, the estate has a missing host, some possibly stolen antiquities, and the odd dead body. And amid a fine collection of suspects, Kydon may have found the love of his life …