And all the time he's a poet. When fellow poet and old flame Peggy Denby asks him to help clear up some details about her husband's death, details that include lots of missing money and rare Etruscan artifacts, he's willing to oblige her. After she's murdered, he keeps looking -- and comes across a good-looking banker, Peggy's hostile stepson, her strangely attractive stepdaughter, and more than a few Berkeley crazies.