A college student is killed soon after serving as a page turner for a pianist at a classical concert held incongruously in a motorcycle shop in Bellingham, Wash. Did the student clash with one of the rough-looking motorcyclists at the concert? Was the pianist jealous of the page turner for having a fling with the violinist? What about the strange caretaker who found the body at a former Cold War military station? It all reflects poorly on the Whatcom Musical Society, which sponsored the concert, and one club member goes out of his way to find the killer.