Francis Hatton has gone to the University town of Exbridge to attend a committee meeting, at St. Oswald's College. At the luncheon adjournment Hatton remains behind to eat his sandwiches, to read the report of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, and to meet death—for death, swift and unforeseen, which strikes him down in that brief hour - but who killed him? And why? An intriguing, fun mystery by Victor L. Whitechurch.