The Guest of Honor Is Dead Dr. Carl Warding, the prominent origins-of-life biologist, dined at the Martin house the night only hours before someone shot him. A difficult man, plenty of people seemed to want him out of the way. Was he killed by one of his academic foes, from the present or the past? By his widow? By one of his students? Or by one of the creationists following him around from one lecture to the next, proclaiming that his teaching comes from the devil? Join Zofia Martin and the rest of her family as they - driven by curiosity and a desire to stop the danger that menaces them - do all they can to solve the murder.