Bakerstreet Mansion is hosting a mystery retreat weekend and Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to participate. He barely has time to breathe the fresh morning air when "Ladybug" sends him a text message, urging him to meet at the boathouse. He finds an open door and a few second later he is launched into a real murder of a single, white female. Along the way, he meets Jennifer, dressed as Miss Scarlett; Bob, the mystery retreat weekend manager; Chief Murphy, fresh out of retirement and Detective Roy, a recalcitrant hero. Another dead body turns up as the number of suspects grows. Undeterred, Bevyn delves deeper into the secrets of the past, one involving his old martial arts teacher and the another, an accidental death that occurred in the same boathouse years before. The reader is taken down dark corridors and through hidden doors until in a chandelier-lit ballroom full of suspects and law enforcement officials, Bevyn exposes the guilty parties. Just when we think the story is finished, Bevyn Jones follows up on one last loose end...