Strange goings-on at Briarpatch College have left a string of corpses across campus. It might be argued that a string must have more than two connected points, but at Briarpatch College everything is connected. Now we have a missing woman, two students and one professor with non-intersecting schemes, a failing romantic relationship, a financial crisis that may be turning around (murder is good for business), and maybe even a winning football team! Undergraduate Stanley Wooda is the youngest academic dean in American higher education, but Dean C. Wooda's ghost still haunts the campus.