During a round of golf, Bobby finds a man at the bottom of a small cliff near the seventeenth hole. Why didn´t they ask Evans? are the dying man´s enigmatic last words, and Bobby, of course, soon discovers that the man´s death was no accident.

The puzzling question of a dying man leads friends and fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Frances Derwent into a complex and dangerous investigation that puts their lives in jeopardy.