This novel is the second in the Detective Ginsburg Mystery series following "The Poisoned Cure: Murder in the Cancer Clinic." Detective Ginsburg, now the head homicide detective at her station, has been once again called to the scene of a murder. This time she finds a body in the offices of a fertility clinic at a large metropolitan hospital. She is soon enmeshed in the complex world of fertility drugs, desperate women and the greed and ego of the medical profession.

The shocking discovery of the body of the Dean of Humanities on the grounds of a University's Elementary School brings Detective Rachel Ginsburg and her homicide team to the campus. A piece of torn paper with a quotation and a number appears with the Dean's body, but the detectives have no idea what it means. Soon another body is found on the steps of the administration building at the center of the university's campus with still another note. Although the inveterate Mrs. Sylvia Greenberg appears with gossip from her daughter's connections to the university, the detectives are stumped and...