If Simon Blunts body was graced with an appendix scar in life, why has it been deprived on one in death? Blunts Oxford classmates, eighty-one-year-old Dr. William Blow and seventy-nine-year-old Professor Gideon Manciple, ponder the intriguingMoreIf Simon Blunts body was graced with an appendix scar in life, why has it been deprived on one in death? Blunts Oxford classmates, eighty-one-year-old Dr. William Blow and seventy-nine-year-old Professor Gideon Manciple, ponder the intriguing implications. Blow and Manciple are joined by Blunts sister, the indefatigable eighty-year-old lass Simonetta, and the merry trio of sleuths bungle through a baffling but amazingly effective investigation to reveal an ingeniously clever solution.