Even though its cover is faded and torn, Stephanie buys the hundred year old childrens book because penciled inside is the name and address of the young girl who owned it long ago. On a lark, she searches the internet for information about her, but what Stephanie learns soon leads to a devastating journey back through time as headline after headline detail the brutal murder of a young American college student in a beautiful Swiss valley. This is the stunning story of how the innocent purchase of an antique childrens book caused a family to rediscover a terrible crime that captured the headlines on both sides of the Atlantic during the autumn of 1932, the investigation and pursuit of the suspect by the Swiss Police, and the crucial support the staff of the American Embassy in Switzerland and the people of the Swiss valley gave to the police and the victim's younger sister.