Beautiful, red-haired Hannah Land starts a new life and a new job. She has just divorced, recently graduated, and has a new position as a teacher at Duke University in North Carolina. A fellow teacher she had just met and with whom she got along well suddenly dies. He falls dead on the floor at welcome dinner for Hannah. an apparent heart attack. But there was cyanide in his fruit cocktail. Who had an interest in his death? His widow is apparently torn apart by grief. His secretary is acting strangely. And several colleagues had reasons to fear and hate him. Hannah is concerned, curious and determined to discover the facts, even if she gets in the way of the police...
