In this final part of the Fordhamton Trilogy the first Fordhamton Arts Festival gets off to a bad start when the stand-in for the school's production of The Real Inspector Hound is found murdered during the dress rehearsal. The murder brings Detective Inspector Miles Davis back to town. His new role in Intelligence leads him straight to the American listening post at Oates Hall and the unofficial investigations by Lynne Anderson, the recently deceased stand-in. Suspicion for the murder immediate