What do Chopin, law school parties, and drugs have in common? When Charlie Witherspoon, a Chicago lawyer, returns to Harvard for his tenth Law School reunion, he doesn't expect anything more than boozy parties with nephew Tom Endicott and former classmate Sidney Rosenblatt. Instead, he encounters an exam-cheating scheme, a dead lawyer, and odd transactions at local bookstores that are tied to drug dealing on a massive scale. After a mysterious guest dies during a party at Tom Endicott's apartment, Tom finds himself embroiled in a police inquiry about the dead man's tutoring business and cheating on a true-false test given by Professor Rosenblatt. Meanwhile, John Rogers, a law school buddy of Tom's who moonlights as a classical music disc jockey, is beaten up for playing the wrong piano piece on his radio show. At the request of Tom and the Dean of Harvard Law School, Uncle Charlie postpones his return to Chicago. Charlie uses his knowledge of music and the law to help the police unravel a complicated drug distribution system involving four banks, a liquor store, and a Puerto Rican connection.