Gordon Bauer, a naïve young man from Illinois, moves to New York to study classics, but instead finds himself enmeshed in a mystery involving a dead professor, a missing Greek amphora, and a beguiling female journalist. Forced to grow up quickly in one amazing summer, he discovers that all knowledge does not come in bound volumes.
Gordon Bauer, a naïve young man from Illinois, moves to New York to study classics, but instead finds himself enmeshed in a mystery involving a dead professor, a missing Greek amphora, and a beguiling female journalist. Forced to grow up quickly in one amazing summer, he discovers that all knowledge does not come in bound volumes.
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