Political ambition, a decades old feud, romantic aspirations, an age old family legend foretelling doom. When a former governor is shot dead at the country home of an old political rival, the famed detective Fleming Stone must determine which of these was a factor in the murder. But his task is complicated by the fact that the three most likely suspects have all confessed, each of them lying to save the others. But if the murderer was not one of these three, who was it?. The fiancee of the daughter of the political rival? The personal secretary of the murdered man? Ot the mysterious bugler in the night? Facing one of his most difficult cases, will Stone be able to solve . . . The Mystery of the Sycamore"