This complex murder mystery weaves together a set of documents proving Hitler's Jewish ancestry, a string of bizarre murders at an elite Pennsylvania college, the discovery of an esteemed American philanthropist's shadowy past, ruthless doings at a Nazi concentration camp, a rocky love affair, and various underhanded manipulations by people seeking personal gain. Characters include a former concentration camp officer finding sanctuary in American academic circles, a most unusual college president, a baseball player turned historian, a state police detective, a female graduate student accused...