<p>Driven by good intentions and with a little help from an obscure Order of Monks in Italy, Professor Finn Kelly, Ireland&rsquo;s leading mediaevalist finds a way of making easy money for his favourite charity in Dublin. This involves him &ldquo;discovering&rdquo; a long lost manuscript which is reputed to be an early Oscar Wilde play. Finn is surgical in his execution of this caper, but he needs his friend&rsquo;s help who is not so meticulous. As Finn should have known, easy money always has consequences, and before long O&rsquo;Connell College is shocked to the core by the murder of the College Bursar in his office. At the same time a mysterious man appears in Dublin inviting Professor Kelly to help promote US-Irish relations in Boston. Whilst on a consultancy assignment at the Vatican Finn meets Maria, the beautiful green eyed Director in charge of facilitating the stay of visiting academics.</p><p>Then there is a burglary, the discovery of a body in the Grand Canal and the disappearance of a long standing friend. Finn Kelly realises that he is in imminent danger but the Garda S&iacute;och&aacute;na are not convinced these events are anything more than a string of coincidences. There is a double murder at University Church on St Stephen&rsquo;s Green. And when the Garda S&iacute;och&aacute;na finally become fully engaged it is Inspector Shamus Quinn who arranges a suitable trap which leads to a kind of justice.</p>