Three years after Tony Travers fell to his death while attending his forty-fifth high school reunion, his son discovers a note suggesting that Tony might have been murdered. Tony's son hires Connie Haydn and Shrug Speaker, local retirees with records of success in crime detection to investigate.
Their probing uncovers secret love affairs, as well as an entanglement of antagonisms, hatred, admiration, generosity, and remorse. But it takes visits to Texas and a remote Scottish town before the two members of the self-dubbed "Second Best Club" can finally expose the decades-old story that explains Tony's death. The ending will shock!