A story of a graduate student whose focus is on the Minoan culture has disappeared and is both pressured dead by the police and is the prime suspect in the museum rubbery; the police have 7 suspect, including the dedicated history professor Antonia Nielsen; brings not joy to the University, but trouble, invaluable Greek artifacts are stolen from the campus museum, Adriadne Pappas, prize student of classics professor Antonia Nielsen, has vanished; turning from the serenity of academia to the dangers of detection, Antonia unravels a clue reaching clear back to antiquity and leading to a solution that is shockingly contemporary.