Denis Casey, professor of Applied Mathematics in Trinity Collegefs School of Physics, and Lorenzo Scalzo, professor of Mathematics at the University of Bologna, have only one thing in mind when they set out for a week's stay at an Irish Castle Hotel - Golf. The two have been friends since their graduate days at Stanford University.
Lorenzo is married to Denisf sister Eileen, who teaches Renaissance Art at the University of Bologna. On this trip to Ireland, Eileen has decided to spend time with friends in Dublin, while Denis and Lorenzo have accepted an invitation from Denisf friend Patrick OfRonan to spend the week at the castle hotel he manages.
Denis and Lorenzo are golf fanatics and the thought of spending a week playing golf has both of them excited. But little occurs in a normal way for these two. Even a simple drive can turn into an adventure! Their golfing plans are derailed when, just after arriving at the hotel, a dead man\Norman Tressler\is found in his room. An apparent heart attack victim? Dr. Prendergast has his suspicions, and sends the contents of a glass off for analysis. When the results come back they point to murder. Afraid of what the adverse publicity might do to his hotel, Patrick asks Denis and Lorenzo to help out, as the lone town constable has no experience in conducting a murder investigation, and calling in the Garda\Irelandfs State Police\would surely mean publicity.
When Denis and Lorenzo begin their investigation they find no shortage of suspects. The other members of the dead manfs group\directors in his electronics company\have a motive. Tressler brought them on this trip as part of an elaborate plan to reorganize and downsize the company which would unfold in their absence. A plan that includes the firing of all, but one, member of the group. But which one had the opportunity? Which one could have obtained the fatal agent? And how had the deadly dose been administered. Who really killed the man? And how had they done it?
The gproofh is up to Denis and Lorenzo. Approaching the problem from the perspectives of their very different fields of study, the two men zero in on the truth with mathematical precision.
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Joe Massucco