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Anthropologist Gideon Oliver who is well known as "skelton detective" goes to England with his bride Judie. During this honeymoon, he visits a museam where he finds a 30,000-year-old skull is not so old one. Somebody stole it.
After then they visits his old friend Nate, a ambitious archaeologist who insists the Myceneans from Greece migrated to England to start the British Bronze Age in about 1700 B.C. Nate believes himself having found a myceneans bones in the dig site near the Dorchester. But Nate doesn't want to show the bones to Gideon. Nate doesn't tell gideon he has gotten the bone, but only the evidences.
One of the digging stuffs of Nate, Randy asks to Gideon to meet him in the evening about the finding. But this evening, he does not visit to Gideon.
So Gideon and bride leave there to continue their honey moon.
After a month, they back to the seaside to know nobody knows where Randy is.
Gideon tells to Nate that the bone is not an old Mycenans but a skull of 30,000 year old which stole from a musium.
The skelton detective is asked , by local police, to see the strange dead which was found almost as bones.
He thinks the bone was belong to a young white man who has ever been a professional baseball player as a pitcher and who was a rider of chopper type motorbike.
This profile of bone agrees with Randy's career. It's a great job of reasonning.
And after here, this book turns an ordinery good detective story.
(Copyright 1985 by Aaron Elkins
Berkley Prime Crime market-edition, 2005)
