When Ardis is sent to South Dakota to handle a bequest of pioneer and Sioux artifacts left to the University of Chicago by wealthy private collector Anthony LaMoine, she gets a load of trouble that she hadnโt expected - a stolen ruby, a friendโs missing son, and a skeleton in the cellar! Ardis learns that Anthony had an adopted son. For reasons unknown to Ardis, his son ran away from home during his teenage years. โFind the son,โ the housekeeper tells her, โand youโll find the thief.โ But is the son really the guilty party? And is the mysterious writer-historian Seldon Drake really the man he claims to be - or an imposter?