Los Angeles in nineteen sixty-eight is a troubled place. Assassinations, school walk-outs and student sit-ins have stirred up that famous LA dust and created an atmosphere where it is hard to get your breath, especially if you're a sixty-five year-old private eye. The trouble with thinking that you're at the end of your career is that others might not necessarily agree. A young British archaeologist with a mystery that at first sight seems not to be a mystery at all needs help. Her boss, a senior archaeologist at the university is missing. Has he just absent-mindedly gone off on some wild academic jaunt? Or has he dug something up from the past that somebody doesn't want to